Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules. [...] Analyzing the behavior of a nonlinear equation like the Navier-Stokes equation is like walking through a maze whose walls rearrange themselves with each step you take. Chaos: Making a New Science
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Quote:- Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.
Author:- William Butler Yeats
Category:- hope
Quote:- Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one.
Author:- Robert Frost
Category:- Life,best
Quote:- Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won't keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect?
Author:- Cristina Marrero
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Norse mythology hints at Odinic cults, with Odin being worshipped through a combination of ecstatic and seemingly shamanistic rituals. From the eddic poem The Sayings of the High One ( Hávamál ), he is said to have hanged himself in a sacrificial ritual on a tree. Barely surviving this ordeal, Odin gains arcane knowledge, including the use of runes, the ancient Scandinavian alphabet sometimes used for magical purposes. In the poem, Odin chants : I know that I hungon the wind-swept treeall nine nightswith spear was I woundedand given to Odin,myself to me,on that tree which no one knowsfrom which roots it grows.Bread I was not given, no drink from the horn,downwards I glared;up I pulled the runes,screaming I took them,from there I fell back again.- excerpt from Jesse L. Byock's Introduction and Notes, of Sturluson's Prose Edda.
The Prose Edda
Author:- Snorri Sturluson
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.
Hercules of the Revolution: A Novel Based on the Life of Peter Francisco
Author:- Travis Scott Bowman
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.
Streams of Silver
Author:- R.A. Salvatore
Category:- time
Quote:- Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. For some, it brings a measure of comfort, a sense of self and of source, but others I fear take these altered memories too far, and because of that paralyze themselves to the realities about them.How many people wonder for that past, simpler and better world, I wonder? Without ever recognizing that truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them.
Streams of Silver
Author:- R.A. Salvatore
Category:- time
Quote:- Not a day goes by that did not have a great opportunity packaged in it somewhere. And the question is, did the opportunity go by with the day?
Author:- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Category:- hope
Quote:- Not a fan of the name dark energy which implies concealed energy for the simple reason that these words elude rather than conclude that the purpose of self - the meaning of life - is love. Perhaps the scientific community could be open to change one's name from dark energy to rainbow energy? Regardless. Not here to complain. Happy with the companionship either way.
Author:- Wald Wassermann
Category:- science
Quote:- Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
Author:- Daniel C. Dennett
Category:- science
Quote:- Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
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Author:- Stephen King
Category:- hope
Quote:- Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)
House of Leaves
Author:- Mark Z. Danielewski
Category:- science
Quote:- Not all doors open in the same direction and with the same effort!
Author:- Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Not all friends can boost your life. Some will drain your energy, and others will dilute your focus. Stay with friends who energize your life, and challenge you to greater heights.
Author:- John Arthur
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Not all love stories with happy endings, in real life, are beautiful stories in the end.
Author:- Danny Castillones Sillada
Category:- Love
Quote:- Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
The Book of the City of Ladies
Author:- Christine de Pizan
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking?
Author:- Terry Eagleton
Category:- philosophy