Sophie Kinsella Quotes

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?!

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.