"Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself."

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Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

George Sarton

#Pedantry Quotes

“In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mike Watt". "Spaced", www.imdb.com. 1999–2001.
“Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.”
“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”
“I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.”
“Life isn't about winning it's about what you learn and how much you can grow.”
“If it doesnâ€™t have ambiguity, donâ€™t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photographyâ€”the mendacity of photographyâ€”itâ€™s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it or itâ€™s not interesting to me.”
“In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.”

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