“Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?'
'Oh, rather!'
'What do you do about it?'
'I generally take a couple of cocktails.”
― Doctor Sally
'Oh, rather!'
'What do you do about it?'
'I generally take a couple of cocktails.”
― Doctor Sally
“Although the Principia has been called ‘one of the most inaccessible books ever written’7 (Newton intentionally made it difficult so that he wouldn’t be pestered by mathematical ‘smatterers’, as he called them), it was a beacon to those who could follow it. It not only explained mathematically the orbits of heavenly bodies, but also identified the attractive force that got them moving in the first place – gravity. Suddenly every motion in the universe made sense. At”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.”
― Doctor Sally
― Doctor Sally
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