Sunday, September 2, 2007

Quotes

Florence Nightingale

"she said the object and colour in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."

- http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/florence_nightingale.html

Steven Hawking

"equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry."

- http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/8962.html

Charles Darwin

"to suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of equal amounts of spherical and chromatic abberation, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, i freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."

- http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Darwin_on_evolution_of_the_eye

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