Connections quotes
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"I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc."
"Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy"
"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."
"Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other."
"Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts."
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"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
"There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner."
"You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings."
"Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think."
"Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!"
"You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry."
"Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world."
"I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems."
"Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony."
"The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever"
"Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth."
"Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations."
"Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena."
"Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever."
"All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken."
"So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet."
"You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars."
"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint."
"Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe."
"He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life."
