Alan Valentine famous quotes

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
-- Alan Valentine

#Angel #Science #Discovery

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.
-- Alan Valentine

#Loyalty #Fathers Day #Son

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.
-- Alan Valentine

#Men #Self #Discipline

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.
-- Alan Valentine

#Father #Son #Hands

Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.