Displacements Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal…
— Herbert Butterfield
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I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A…
— Michael Dirda
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What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to…
— Lewis Mumford
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,…
— Anne Fadiman
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Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a…
— Thomas Hardy
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Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is…
— Lionel Shriver
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The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and…
— Rebecca Solnit
Who Wrote These Displacements Quotes
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