January 2012
55 posts
You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your...
“I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman’s...”
– Anaïs Nin
“the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think...”
– Banksy
“We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose...”
– Robert Fulghum
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry...”
– Dead Poets Society
“What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a...”
– Gustave Flaubert
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the...”
– Franz Kafka, The Trial
“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as...”
– -From the essay “Walking” by Henry D. Thoreau
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anais Nin
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious...”
– Albert Einstein
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
