"I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics, the queen of the sciences up on top, down through a bunch of squishy subjects, ending up with sociology and psychology on the bottom. Palaeontologists are not much above that in their conventional ordering."

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Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

Richard Lewontin

#Queens Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?”
“It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.”
“The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence.”
“The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.”
“The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.”
“Failure is what you may need to eventually succeed.”
“I think my parents were worried when I said I wanted to be an actress, but they also understood what that feeling is like. Maybe if I had shone at anything at school they would have encouraged me to try that, but it has been the only thing I have ever wanted to do.”
“You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1989). “A Door in the Hive”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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