Sumaiya Onty

“A smile is the universal welcome.”
― Max Eastman, The Sense of Humor

“Change is ubiquitous. Only: elementary processes cannot be ordered along a common succession of instants. At the extremely small scale of the quanta of space, the dance of nature does not develop to the rhythm kept by the baton of a single orchestral conductor: every process dances independently with its neighbours, following its own rhythm. The passing of time is intrinsic to the world, it is born of the world itself, out of the relations between quantum events which are the world and which themselves generate their own time.”
― Carlo Rovelli, La realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose

“This does not mean that science is just the art of making measurable predictions. Some philosophers of science overly circumscribe science by limiting it to its numerical predictions. They miss the point, because they confuse the instruments with the objectives. Verifiable quantitative predictions are instruments to validate hypotheses. The objective of scientific research is not just to arrive at predictions: it is to understand how the world functions; to construct and develop an image of the world, a conceptual structure to enable us to think about. Before being technical, science is visionary.”
― Carlo Rovelli, La realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose

“যে-পৃথিবী জেগে আছে, তার ঘাস—আকাশ তোমার।
জীবনের স্বাদ ল’য়ে জেগে আছো, তবুও মৃত্যুর ব্যথা দিতে পারো তুমি;”
― Jibanananda Das, ধূসর পাণ্ডুলিপি