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Limited government2 quotes
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. — Grover Norquist · 2001I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. — Grover Norquist · 2001Physics2 quotes
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. — Arthur Eddington · 1926I am standing on the threshold about to enter a room. It is a complicated business. In the first place I must shove against an atmosphere pressing with a force of fourteen pounds on every square inch of my body. I must make sure of landing on a plank travelling at twenty miles a second round the sun-a fraction of a second too early or too late, the plank would be miles away. I must do this whilst hanging from a round planet, head outward into space, and with a wind of aether blowing at no one knows how many miles a second through every interstice of my body. — Arthur Eddington · 1928Atoms1 quote
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. — Arthur Eddington · 1926Big vs. small1 quote
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. — Arthur Eddington · 1926Government spending1 quote
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. — Grover Norquist · 2001Man and animals1 quote
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington · 1928Nature of time1 quote
I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one way property of time which has no analogue in space. — Arthur Eddington · 1928Political theory1 quote
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. — Grover Norquist · 2001Probability1 quote
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington · 1928Randomness1 quote
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington · 1928Stars1 quote
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. — Arthur Eddington · 1926