Quote:- This is Lorenz’s famous (and widely misunderstood) butterfly effect: a flap of a butterfly’s wing can cause a hurricane a month later, halfway round the world.If you think that sounds implausible, I don’t blame you. It’s true, but only in a very special sense. The main potential source of misunderstanding is the word ‘cause’. It’s hard to see how the tiny amount of energy in the flap of a wing can create the huge energy in a hurricane. The answer is, it doesn’t. The energy in the hurricane doesn’t come from the flap: it’s redistributed from elsewhere, when the flap interacts with the rest of the otherwise unchanged weather system.After the flap, we don’t get exactly the same weather as before except for an extra hurricane. Instead, the entire pattern of weather changes, worldwide. At first the change is small, but it grows – not in energy, but in difference from what it would otherwise have been. And that difference rapidly becomes large and unpredictable. If the butterfly had flapped its wings two seconds later, it might have ‘caused’ a tornado in the Philippines instead, compensated for by snowstorms over Siberia. Or a month of settled weather in the Sahara, for that matter.
Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Author:- Ian Stewart
Category:- science
Quote:- This is love, I think, to hold a name carefully between the teeth, to hold without swallowing.
The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
Author:- Sondra Charbadze
Category:- Love
Quote:- This is more real than the living manI still bask in rays of bewilderment from BethlehemWith its dusking evenfallThis noon dream rends Athena’s glimAs its symphony can’t be chained in sleep
13 Days of Solitude: Thoughts beyond Words
Author:- Abdulkadir Abdullahi
Category:- best
Quote:- This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.
Leap
Author:- Terry Tempest Williams
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama
Author:- Dalai Lama XIV
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner.""So that she can make her feel bad and weird?""Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?"Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her?
Eleanor & Park
Author:- Rainbow Rowell
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- This is newness: every little tawdryObstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only youDon't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.There's no getting up it by the words you know.No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.We have only come to look. You are too newTo want the world in a glass hat.
Author:- Sylvia Plath
Category:- poetry
Quote:- This is not an easy timeBut tell me—tell me here, with all we know upended:What has real meaning and value for you? Right now?What is worth your time and love, your self-investment,No matter what the morrow brings?
Author:- Shellen Lubin
Category:- time
Quote:- This is not the haze that has clouded your eyes for the first time...neither it is the fog that will mystify you for the last ....for a thirst so fierce dries your lips....for a mouthful of melodies....the thirst that overpowers every loss....like the honey that smoothens the sharpest of edges....so your lips can live with songs and not scars.....so dawn will show unannounced in the thickest of dark....so you will heal as you kiss your wounds....as you pick up what is left of the broken promises....and wishes that remain unfulfilled.....so you will press those pieces like roses between the pages....and every tear will turn to a sonnet...so in the dark.... if you collapse into a powerlessness...you will still remain.....with lips full of lyrics.....
Author:- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Category:- motivational
Quote:- This is often the way it is in physics. Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. It is always hard to realize that these numbers and equations we play with at our desks have something to do with the real world.
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
Author:- Steven Weinberg
Category:- science
Quote:- This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
Author:- Henry Cloud
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- This is only the beginning of your story, not the end.
Bookish and the Beast
Author:- Ashley Poston
Category:- motivational
Quote:- This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
The Other Voice: Essays on Modern Poetry
Author:- Octavio Paz
Category:- poetry
Quote:- This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.’ ‘No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart’s beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?
Royal Assassin
Author:- Robin Hobb
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Author:- Daniel Quinn
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- This is the beauty and power of it—the wonderful, exhilarating, funny, humbling, painful, surprising, enlightening beauty and power of our lives together.
Dance: A Spiritual Affair
Author:- Donna Goddard
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- This is the beauty and the tragedy of my father's life and death. For him, for me, for most of us at the time, for better and for worse, death is life's mirror.
The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
Author:- Steve Leder
Category:- hope
Quote:- This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today.
Author:- Edith Bouvier Beale
Category:- philosophy