Quotes: The Seasons

Seasons             833          "Summer works in the present, and thinks not of the future; autumn is a rich conservative; winter has utterly lost its faith, and clings tremulously to the remembrance of what has been; but spring with its outgushing life…." Hawthorne: “Buds and Bird-Voices”

Seasons             005          "Time not the temperature, marks off the days." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year.

Seasons             82            "Gopher Prairie was digging in for the winter; through late November and all December it snowed daily; the thermometer was at zero and might drop to twenty below, or thirty; winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry; storm sheds...erected at every door." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Seasons             199          "To the sterile winter air the [newly chopped] wood gave a scent of March sap." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Seasons             497         " It was one of those days in Central Park when there’s a distilled sense of perception, a spareness, every line firm and unredundant, and the leaves were beginning to turn, the dogwoods and the sumac, and nothing was wasted or went unseen." DeLillo, Underworld.

Quotes: The Sea.

Sea          568          "…find utterance in the sea’s unchanging voice, and warn the listener to withdraw his interest from mortal vicissitudes, and let the infinite idea of eternity pervade his soul." Hawthorne: "Footprints on the Sea-Shore"

Sea      569          "For as the sun sinks over the western wave, the sea grows melancholy, and the surf has a saddened tone." Hawthorne: "Footprints on the Sea-Shore"

Quotes: Sculpture

Sculpture           935         " …it became evident to all observers, that a female figure was growing into mimic life…seemed as if the hamadryad of the oak had sheltered herself from the unimaginative world within the heart of her native tree, and that it was only necessary to remove the strange shapelessness that had incrusted her, and reveal the grace and loveliness of a divinity." Hawthorne: “Drowne’s Wooden Image”

Sculpture           936          "The figure lies within that block of oak, and it is my business to find it." Hawthorne: “Drowne’s Wooden Image”

Sculpture           1089        "It [the snow image] seemed, in fact, not so much to be made by the children, as to grow up under their hands, while they were playing and prattling about it." Hawthorne:  "The Snow Image"

Quote: Scorn.

Scorn  252          "Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn." George Bernard Shaw.

Quotes: Science (11)

Science            342          Paul Ehrlich: "The step from the laboratory to the bedside is dangerous—but it must be taken." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            342          "At bottom Paul Ehrlich was a gambler, as who of the great line of the microbe hunters has not been." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science and medicine    208          "The human body will come to be seen as modular… preservation of the whole through systematic replacement of transient components." Toffler, Future Shock.

Science and medicine    209          "…advanced fusions of man and machine—called 'Cyborgs'—are closer than most people think." Toffler, Future Shock.

Science and technology               205          "…if something can be done, someone, somewhere will do it." Toffler, Future Shock.

Scientist           332          "Now, while Paul Ehrlich’s head was an encyclopedia of chemical knowledge, his hands were not the hands of an expert chemist… hated complicated apparatus as much as he loved complicated theories." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Quotes: Science (10)

Science            298          "There are fertile fields now, and healthy babies, in Italy and Africa and India and America, where once the hum of the anopheles brought thin blood and chattering teeth, brought desolate land and death." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            298          "Facts of science are greater than the little men who find those facts." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            299          "…not one particle of doubt he had to risk human lives; animals simply will not catch yellow fever." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            303          "That is one of the humors of microbe hunting—the way men make their finds." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            310         " …Walter Reed’s moral nature told him: you must kill men to save them." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Quotes: Science (9)

Science            233          Kilborne told him [Theobald Smith ] of the cattlemen’s ridiculous theory about the ticks... “No ticks--no Texas fever.” DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            238          "Theobald Smith...In the field where there were southern cattle and ticks, the northern cattle died of Texas fever; in the field where there were southern cattle without ticks the northern cows grew fat and remained happy; in the field where there were no southern cattle but only ticks--there, too, the northern cattle came down with Texas fever." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            250         "Like Theobald Smith, [David] Bruce was a man to respect and to test folk-hunches and superstitions." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            268          "To listen to these two, you would think each would rather this noble discovery had remained buried, than have the other get a mite of credit for it." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. Gaining credit: the curse of scholars.

Science            286          "This was what Ronald Ross seemed to forget: That nature is everlastingly full of surprises and annoying exceptions…. " DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.