"You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only because we stand on their shoulders. But this [Nobel Prize Presentation] is an occasion on which I should prefer to remember, not the giants upon whose shoulders we stood, but the friends with whom we stood arm in arm ... colleagues in so much of my work."

-- Peter Medawar

#Science Quotes #Arms Quotes #Today Quotes

“Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.”
“There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.”
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”

Source : "Arithmetic, Population and Energy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.
“But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.”
“A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we well not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab neighbors or by some other means. . . [If the Arabs refuse] we shall have to speak to them in another language. But we shall only have another language if we have a state.”
“We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.”
“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”

Source : Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage
“As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.”

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