Monday, November 8, 2010

Quotation of the day for November 8, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for November 8, 2010



"The idea of light somehow bending didn't make any sense, until Dad reminded me that when you held up a glass of water, your fingers on the far side of the glass looked like they'd been chopped off and moved. That was because the water was bending the light. . . .

"All of a sudden what Dad was saying did make sense and the knowledge of it truly lit me up.

"Dad, who was watching me, said, "Eureka!" He started telling me about this ancient Greek fellow named Archimedes who ran naked through the streets shouting, "Eureka!" after he figured out a way to calculate volume while sitting in his bathtub.

"I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all."

- Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

Submitted by: Kathleen Magone
Oct. 18, 2010

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