Eric Linklater famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

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