Quotes by Light The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem in the light of a century's progress, were nevertheless destined to become metamorphosed into the modern principles of cerebral localization. Edward Anthony Spitzka lightmenscience Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom. Edward Abbey spacelightflower If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun. Edna St. Vincent Millay lightsuntwo I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. Edward Bellamy bostonlightyears Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces Edgar Allan Poe starslightnight There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade. Edgar Allan Poe qualitylightspring He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate. Edith Wharton lightwinternight Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. Edvard Munch lightartistdark Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton lightairkindness For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off. Edward Boyden technologycellslight It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light. Edward Burns walllightdream The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle lightgracefire On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light. Edward Conlon sundaylightmorning The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn. Edward Abbey lightfirerain She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her. Edith Wharton lonelinesslightsky Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me. Edith Wharton vividsmilelight We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner. Edgar Allan Poe lightcharacterhands Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. Edward Abbey lightphotographyjobs She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life. Edith Wharton hatelightdark I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded. Edward George, Baron George solitudelightflower«99100101102103104105106107108109»
