You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.Albert Einstein
Today's Quotes
- I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
- On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
- Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
- If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.