Attractive Fixed Point

Famous quotes containing the words attractive, fixed and/or point:

    Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable?
    Benjamin: Oh, no, Mrs. Robinson. I think you’re the most attractive of all my parents’ friends.
    Calder Willingham (1923–1995)

    Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)