“Epitaxial mismatches in the lattices of nickelate ultra-thin films can be used to tune the energetic landscape of Mott materials and thereby control conductor/insulator transitions.” — On the road to Mottronics, ScienceDaily, 24/ii/2014.
Category Archives: Quotations
I Say, I Sigh, I Sow #10
Time is swift and many things
Crowd between the dark and dark.
So say: what wouldst, if thou couldst,
Take treasured to the nerveless grave?
Two things? Aye, and something of the sea:
A storm, and westing sun,
And, at early day, cold air
And the whirr of wild wings.
She Say, She Sigh, She Sow
“Those who view mathematical science, not merely as a vast body of abstract and immutable truths, whose intrinsic beauty, symmetry and logical completeness, when regarded in their connection together as a whole, entitle them to a prominent place in the interest of all profound and logical minds, but as possessing a yet deeper interest for the human race, when it is remembered that this science constitutes the language through which alone we can adequately express the great facts of the natural world, and those unceasing changes of mutual relationship which, visibly or invisibly, consciously or unconsciously to our immediate physical perceptions, are interminably going on in the agencies of the creation we live amidst: those who thus think on mathematical truth as the instrument through which the weak mind of man can most effectively read his Creator’s works, will regard with especial interest all that can tend to facilitate the translation of its principles into explicit practical forms.” — Ada Lovelace (née Byron) (1815-52).
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #18
“Even so, firing a man for ordering a salad…”
“The salad was the last straw.” — Life lessons: Mark E Smith, The Independent, 13/xi/2011.
Mix to the Marx
“And in the global climate of the early 90s, it’s perhaps not surprising that the ANC bent to the neoliberal flood tide, putting its Freedom Charter calls for public ownership and redistribution of land on the back burner.” — Mandela has been sanitised by hypocrites and apologists, Seamus Milne, The Guardian, 12/xii/2013.
Previously pre-posted (please peruse):
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #23
“Brion knew it wasn’t William’s fault. But in terms of the general popular culture not recognizing the importance of his contribution, there was a little bitterness.” — phantasmagoric freethinker Genesis P-Orridge interrogates issues around Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs.
Elsewhere other-posted:
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #16
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #15
“Yo no tomo drogas. Yo soy una droga.” — Salvador Dalí (1904-89).
“I do not take drugs. I am a drug.”
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #14
“39: This appears to be the first uninteresting number, which of course makes it an especially interesting number, because it is the smallest number to have the property of being uninteresting. It is therefore also the first number to be simultaneously interesting and uninteresting.” — David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers (1986), entry for “39”, pg. 120
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #13
“In the early thirties Trotsky also spoke of ‘Bonapartism’ in the Stalinist regime. In 1935, however, he observed that in the French Revolution Thermidor had come first and Napoleon afterwards; the order should be the same in Russia, and, as there was already a Bonaparte, Thermidor must have come and gone.” — Leszek Kołakowski in Main Currents of Marxism: Vol. III, The Breakdown (1978).
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 