Orts #948
In reference to the Gandhi quote in last week’s Orts (“Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction”) a respondent offers this: “in the days when Britain ruled the waves, captains would often go in which ever direction even the wrong one but at high speed rather than risking losing boat speed and becoming becalmed and blasted by the perfidious French.”
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When one is considering the universe, it is important, sensible even, to try and find some balance between laughter and uncontrollable weeping.
-- Ella Frances Sanders, in Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe, quoted in BrainPickings, https://bit.ly/2ZpOh4A
Our life has become so mechanized and electronified that one needs some kind of an elixir to make it bearable at all. And what is this elixir if not humor?
-- László Feleki (1909-1989), in A Random Walk in Science, published in 1973 and quoted in BrainPickings, https://bit.ly/2Uc0tB7
On average, small- and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. sell more than 4,000 items per minute in Amazon's online stores.
-- Amazon ad on Axios, August 23, 2019
Climate affects the timing, rate and dynamics of tree growth, over time scales ranging from seconds to centuries.
-- Gregory King , https://bit.ly/33ZoPT7
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