"But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind."

-- Walter Pater

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“I get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing.”
“There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.”
“Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and when the various Nations of the World can agree to stop this is uncertain. But individual scientists can still influence this process by withholding their skills.”

Source : Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.
“If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.”
“Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.”

Source : Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”
“When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.”
“Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.”
“I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesnâ€™t have to answer to innuendos,”

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