One of the various theories proposed to explain the negative result of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment with light waves (conceived to measure the absolute space), was based on the ballistic hypothesis, i.e. on postulating that the speed of light predicted by Maxwell's equations was not given as relative to the medium but as relative to the transmitter (firearm). Had that been the case, the experiment negative results would have not caused such perplexity and frustration (as we shall see in forthcoming sections).

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

Michelle Trachtenberg

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

David Hockney

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Nadine Gordimer

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

Jules Renard

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Cotton Mather

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Socrates

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

John C. Calhoun

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Mikhail Gorbachev

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

Cato The Elder