"It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution."

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Source : "Balanchine Said" by Arlene Croce, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009.

Stanislao Cannizzaro

#Historical Quotes #Mind Quotes #Phases Quotes

“To achieve great things you have first to believe it.”
“Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.”
“Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future”
“I like them all-pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels-what have you. I've had good ones and bad of several kinds. Most of the bad ones were my fault and most of the good ones would have been good under any circumstances.”

Source : Gene Hill (1972). “A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds and Guns”, p.137, Academic Learning Company LLC
“It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.”
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving ...”
“Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.”

Source : James Robertson (2010). “And the Land Lay Still”, p.23, Penguin UK

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