Quotes from Margaret Cheney

Tan?nm?? bir editör ve mühendis olan Thomas Commerfold Martin bir keresinde Tesla'n?n doÄŸduÄŸu köyü H?rvatistan haritas?nda bulamayan Edison'un Tesla'ya ciddi ciddi hayat?nda hiç insan eti yiyip yemediÄŸini sorduÄŸunu anlat?r.

Gök gürültüsü iyidir, etkileyicidir ama as?l iÅŸ gören ÅŸimÅŸektir Mark Twain

A man always has two reasons for the things he does—a good one and the real one.

Dr. B. A. Behrend, commenting on the presentation, said, "Not since the appearance of Faraday's 'Experimental Researches in Electricity' has a great experimental truth been voiced so simply and so clearly…. He left nothing to be done by those who followed him. His paper contained the skeleton even of the mathematical theory."3

From the electrical-engineering editor Thomas Commerford Martin came eloquent support: "Mr. Tesla has been held a visionary, deceived by the flash of casual shooting stars; but the growing conviction of his professional brethren is that because he saw farther, he saw first the low lights flickering on tangible new continents of science. . . .

since his paycheck barely sustained him. As he wryly observed, "the last twenty-nine days of the month were the hardest.

That's one thing that amazes me about society. That is, that you can do damn near anything and nobody's gonna say anything or notice.

That Guy, she warned him, is a real weirdo. And you're taking a chance leaving him with your parents. You might be surprised to wake up some morning to learn they have been killed.

But they will not be, primarily because the most salient characteristic of the victim-prone person is the conviction that he or she is watched over and protected by the Sun, the Moon, the Wind Goddess, and St. Christopher; and, in short, that it could never happen to him or to her.

el universo era una sinfonía de corrientes alternas