George Biddell Airy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.
There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.
I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.
When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.

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