"As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. We reject the notion advocated in some quarters that man should stop eating from the tree of knowledge, as if that were humanly possible."

-- Nicolaas Bloembergen

#Knowledge Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Men Quotes

“I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?”

Source : Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch
“For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?”

Source : "SXSW FUTURES | Indie World is Smitten with High School Senior and ‘Electrick Children’ Star Julia Garner". Interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. March 16, 2012.
“We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.”
“I would say that it's very difficult to personally construct your gender. I think a lot of it is socially constructed. If you look at The New York Times' coverage of trans children, some of them were as young as four years old. One said, "I see my daddy in the woodshed, and that's where I'd rather be than in the kitchen." That to me doesn't ring as somebody who is trans, it rings as someone who has grown up with a narrow view.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.”
“New York is a great place to feel inspired all the time.”
“Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.”
“Not one amongst the doctors, as you'll see For his own friends desires to prescribe.”

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