Jan Swammerdam quotes

Jan Swammerdam quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will see the wisdom of God clearly manifested in a minute point.”
-- Jan Swammerdam

#Miracle Quotes #Minutes Quotes #Fingers Quotes

“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
“There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.”
“Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
“Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!”
“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.”
“The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.”

Source : Carolyn Kinder Carr, Alice Neel (2002). “Alice Neel: women”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.”
“I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.”
“The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed ...”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2016). “The Leavenworth Case”, p.104, Anna Katharine Green
“Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup!”

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