Excited Nuclear State

Famous quotes containing the words excited, nuclear and/or state:

“Moderation in all things is best, but it’s pretty hard to get excited about it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

“If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the “state of progressive collapse” is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)