Richard Goldschmidt famous quotes

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  • If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

  • Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

  • Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

  • Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

  • The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

  • There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

  • Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

  • Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity,

  • We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

  • Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.