Slowness Quotes - Page 3

• One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Leader, Progress, Important

  Robert Andrews Millikan (1980). “The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Universe will be a very small place once we solve our speed problem! When that day comes, no man will talk about the greatness of the universe! All greatness comes from our smallness and from our slowness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Greatness, Men, Problem

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• The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Ideas, Evil

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.80, Vintage

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• Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Errors, Goal

  "Pope Francis’ Atheist Letter Says ‘God’s Mercy Has No Limits’" by Alessandro Speciale, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2013.

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• As actors, we need a moment to take a breath and have a moment of slowness.

  Emily Kinney

  Needs, Actors, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.

  Annalee Newitz

  Running, Believe, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I found it was remarkable. It was so evocative. I feel like it captured the urgency and the chaos, but through the silence of it, through the slowness of it. That's what I loved the most about Citizenfour.

  Zachary Quinto

  Silence, Chaos, Found

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane.

  Dennis Miller

  Airplane, People, Car

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• We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

  Alex Campbell

  Blessing, Appreciate, May

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• I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

  Alfred Kastler

  Wall, Relaxation, Molecules

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• I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I enjoy the slowness of the whole process. It makes me more deliberate about everything I say.

  Elaine Equi

  Book, Writing, Essence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Realizing, Goodness

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Essence, Knows

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.212, Vintage

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• We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Done

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• I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. and: No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. and: From the stormy archipelagoes I brought my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain, the habitual slowness of natural things: they made up my wild heart.

  Pablo Neruda

  Crazy, Rain, Flower

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• As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Struggle, Culture

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Junot Díaz". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

  Connie Willis

  Lasts, Problem, Said

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.18, Bantam

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• At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

  Henri Barbusse

  Heartbreaking, Mankind

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• I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Hate, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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