Small Body

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or body:

    “The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.”
    —Primo Levi (1919–1987)

    “If a man’s eye falls
    on any of her limbs first,
    it is stuck on that spot.
    No one at all sees her body whole.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)