"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."

-- Robert Delaunay

#Understanding Quotes #Perception Quotes

“I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.”
“And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.”
“Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.”

Source : "95 poems (89)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.
“There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from a human rights context. But there's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals specifically, which says women are going to have their rights eroded by virtue of the fact of these courts are going to negotiate settlements and negotiate the dropping of criminal charges against men. There's not been any evidence of that taking place.”
“I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.”
“Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.”
“Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.”

Source : Marie Corelli (1905). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”
“Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe-it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position . . .”

Source : Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage

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