"It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined."

-- Claude Bernard

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“My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.”
“When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.”
“War is too strange to be processed alone.”
“And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectation unique to you, and your infinitesimal heart?”
“Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.”

Source : Tony DiTerlizzi (2010). “The Search for WondLa”, p.381, Simon and Schuster
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
“Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.”

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