"The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge."

-- Percy Williams Bridgman

#Knowledge Quotes #Men Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.”
“Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.”
“If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.”
“Looking back on my whole experience, the biggest takeaway was just being proud of what you do, and knowing that it's okay to do your best even if it's not the best. That's sort of the theme. I mean, obviously I'm not the best singer, obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.”
“I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.”
“I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.”
“Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?”
“Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.”

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