Strangeness Quotes

While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time. - James Cronin

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. - Richard Le Gallienne

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. - Trevor McDonald

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death.... - Michel De Montaigne

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing. - EM Bounds

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon Sr.

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. - David Remnick

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. - Jackson Pollock

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all. - Daniel J. Boorstin

The camp is going well. The only strangeness is who's playing all the time. The fans get cheated, but you have to look out for your own. - Joe Torre