"I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke."

-- John Dalton

#Character Quotes #Science Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
“No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.”
“If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy...”
“I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.”
“Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to learn about life, about West and East, geography, history, culture, there are many, many things that you learn in order to be able to solve puzzles.”
“Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.”
“Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.”

Source : Vachel Lindsay, “Factory Windows Are Always Broken”
“Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.”

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