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C. S. Lewis once said, “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.
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Patrick Morley (The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face)
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Pull up a step, Ace,” I told him. He did, but he had the fidgets. He kept looking for his lucky exit. I told him, “I didn’t really want you. But I can’t get ahold of Winger.” Not that I’d tried. “What? Who?” “Your girlfriend. Big blond goof with no common sense, always has an angle, never tells the truth if a lie will do. Her.” “Part of that fits everybody in this thing,” Morley said. “Even up on the Hill, they turned the truth to quicksilver.” “Untruths, too.” “Quicksilver lies. I like that.” “Deadly quicksilver lies.” I spotted friend C.J. Carlyle. “Look who missed the slaughter at Maggie Jenn’s place.
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Glen Cook (Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Garrett P.I., #7))
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Fitzgerald had noticed that if this sqrt(I-v^2/c^2) correction factor was applied to the analysis of Michelson's apparatus fixed on the earth's surface as it moved around the Sun, it could explain why Michelson measured no effect from the ether. The arm of the interferometer contracts by a factor sqrt(I-v^2/c^2) in the direction of its motion through the ether at a speed v. At an orbital speed of 29 kilometers per second this results in a contraction of only one part in 200,000,000 in the direction of the Earth's orbital motion. The length of the arm perpendicular to the ether's motion is unaffected. This small contraction effect exactly counterbalances the time delay expected from the presence of a stationary ether. If the Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction occurred then it allowed the existence of a stationary ether to be reconciled with the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment. Space need not be empty after all.
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John D. Barrow (The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe)
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Sa lei perché la gente ora legge più libri di quanto non abbia mai fatto prima? Perché la terrificante catastrofe della guerra le ha fatto comprendere di aver la mente ammalata. Il mondo soffriva di ogni sorta di febbri celebrali, e dolori, e disordini, e non lo sapeva. Ora le nostre angosce mentali sono anche troppo manifeste. Leggiamo tutti avidamente, in fretta, cercando di scoprire, passato il disturbo, che cosa c'era che non andava nella nostra mente.
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Christopher Morley
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Sa lei perché la gente ora legge più libri di quanto non abbia mai fatto? Perché la terrificante catastrofe della guerra le ha fatto comprendere di aver la mente ammalata. Il mondo soffriva di ogni sorta di febbri celebrali, e dolori, e disordini, e non lo sapeva. Ora le nostre angosce mentali sono anche troppo manifeste. Leggiamo tutti avidamente, in fretta, cercando di scoprire, passato il disturbo, che cosa c'era che non andava nella nostra mente.
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Christopher Morley (The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus, #2))
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Non c'è uomo più riconoscente di quello a cui si è dato proprio il libro che la sua anima desiderava inconsciamente.
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Christopher Morley (The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus, #2))
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Quando vendi ad un uomo un libro, non gli vendi 12 once di carta, un po' di inchiostro e della colla, gli vendi un'intera nuova vita".
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C. Morley
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key, and please be sure to avoid commercial orange juice products with added calcium. The vitamin C-complex in orange juice helps to ensure that the minerals noted below get to the liver to then nourish the adrenals. 1/4 tsp of Cream of Tartar (potassium bitartrate). This is an excellent source of potassium. As an alternative, you can use potassium bicarbonate or potassium chloride. 1/4 tsp of fresh ground Redmond’s Real Salt or sea salt. This is an excellent source of sodium, plus 90+ other trace minerals. (Please know that the original source of this recipe was Susan Blackard, NP, ND, PhD, at the Rejuvenation Health Center in Springfield, MO. The following alternatives have been compiled by UBER MAG-pie and RCP enthusiast, Valerie Engh.) Alternative #1: Replace Cream of Tartar and orange juice with organic coconut water and whole food vitamin C-complex. 8 oz. / 1 cup / 250 mL of coconut water. Be sure to use enough coconut water to ensure you receive 375 mg of potassium. 1/4 tsp of fresh ground Redmond’s Real Salt or sea salt. 60 mg of whole food vitamin C-complex.
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Morley M. Robbins (Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How To Fix It On Your Own)
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To sum up, we lose the ability to transport copper because we don’t have access to the ceruloplasmin taxi, which feeds copper to the cells and to the mitochondria. If ceruloplasmin cannot get copper to the cells and their mitochondrial power grids, the result is a general breakdown of ATP production. And if enough copper is not available, we cannot regulate oxygen metabolism and cytochrome c oxidase is not going to be able to activate oxygen to create energy. If that happens, then we’re not going to be able to regulate iron metabolism. The end result is that our mitochondria are not able to make energy, and the body is not going to be able to make heme and iron sulfur clusters, which are created as a part of the mitochondrial actions. Given that iron is a terminal destination in the mitochondria, we’re going to have a serious problem because this iron will build up inside the ferritin storage proteins, both inside the mitochondria, as well as inside the cells. Then we’re going to lose the ability to regulate the reactive oxidative stress that takes place. And we’re not going to have enough antioxidant enzymes to break down the oxidative stress that’s building. This is why both copper and ceruloplasmin are so important for proper energy production that does not result in iron buildup and oxidative stress, particularly in Complex IV, but in all mitochondrial complexes of the ETC.
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Morley M. Robbins (Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How To Fix It On Your Own)
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Throughout the Day Trace Mineral Drops ~1/2 tsp (mix w/ gallon of water to sip on throughout the day) - Phases 1-3 With Breakfast Magnesium Malate ~200mg - Phases 1-3 Cod Liver Oil ~900mcg / 3,000 IU - Phases 1-3 Bee Pollen ~½ - 1 tsp - beginning with Phase 2 Beef Liver ~1,500mg - beginning with Phase 1 Boron ~1 - 3mg - Phase 3 Iodine ~ 1 serving - Phase 3 Mid-Morning (away from food) Adrenal Cocktail 1 serving (mix in OJ or water) - Phases 1-3 Whole Food Vitamin C-complex ~400mg - Phases 1-3 With Lunch Magnesium Malate ~200mg - Phases 1-3 Whole Food Vitamin E Complex ~ 1 serving - Phases 1-3 Beef Liver ~1,500mg - beginning with Phase 1 Mid-Afternoon (away from food) Adrenal Cocktail 1 serving (mix in OJ or water) - Phases 1-3 Whole Food Vitamin C-complex ~400mg - Phases 1-3 With Dinner Taurine ~500mg, - Phase 3 Evening Magnesium Glycinate ~200mg - Phases 1-3 Topical Magnesium 1 application - Phases 1-3 Right before bed, or first thing in the morning (away from food) Rice Bran ~1 - 2 tsp - beginning with Phase 2 Diatomaceous Earth ~½ - 1 tsp - Phase 3.
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Morley M. Robbins (Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How To Fix It On Your Own)
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Now my erudite informant has solved at least part of the mystery. ‘The Anticipator’ was written by one Morley Roberts; it was first published in 1898 in The Keeper of the Waters and Other Stories. I probably encountered it in a Doubleday anthology, Travellers in Time (1947), edited by Philip Van Doren Stern. Yet several problems remain. First of all, why was I so convinced that the story was by Wells? I can only suggest—and it seems pretty farfetched, even for my grasshopper mind—that the similarity of words had made me link it subconsciously with ‘The Accelerator’.
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Arthur C. Clarke (The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke)
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Attualmente, tuttavia, non è insolito che una qualità o una caratteristica venga ipotizzata in via teorica e che la prova sperimentale venga trovata in seguito.
Un esempio di questo modo di procedere è proprio la teoria dei campi, che si è sviluppata nel corso della ricerca sul mezzo attraverso il quale si trasmette la luce. La fisica classica postulò l’esistenza di un mezzo di trasmissione per tutte le energie ondulatorie, come il suono e la luce; il famoso esperimento di Michelson e Morley (1887) provò invece che la luce si trasmetteva anche nel vuoto. Fu una scoperta rivoluzionaria. Ben presto fu dimostrato che anche le onde elettriche e quelle magnetiche possono trasmettersi nel vuoto. Da qui derivò la teoria dei campi, che in sostanza ipotizzava una condizione e la definiva un “campo”. In seguito si ebbe la prova dell’esistenza dei campi elettrici, dei campi magnetici e dei campi gravitazionali.
Dalla trasmissione degli impulsi elettrici e delle onde magnetiche risultò evidente che c’era qualcosa di elettrico e di magnetico nelle caratteristiche dello spazio.
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Daisaku Ikeda (La vita: Mistero prezioso (Italian Edition))
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In the 1930s, Sylvanus G. Morley of Harvard, probably the most celebrated Mayanist of his day, espoused what is still the best-known theory: The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst, and fled their cities en masse, leaving them as silent warnings of the perils of ecological hubris.
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Charles C. Mann (1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus)
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nessuno come un cane sa apprezzare la straordinarietà della tua conversazione.
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C. Morley