"Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance."

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Source : Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.666, Modern Library

Henri Poincare

#Ignorance Quotes #Names Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.”
“Movies bore me; especially my own.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.”
“Everything in life thatâ€™s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
“The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.”
“I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.”
“The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.”
“Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.”

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