Doubly Magic Nucleus

Famous quotes containing the words doubly, magic and/or nucleus:

“A man calumniated is doubly injured—first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–425 B.C.)

“But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
And travelling often in the cut he makes,
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not
And all their botany is Latin names.
The old men studied magic in the flowers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil’s pet baits. In larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed....”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)