"Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus."

-- Peter S. Prescott

#Thinking Quotes #Academic Quotes #Abacus Quotes

“My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.”
“Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.”
“Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.”
“Our weaknesses are an opportunity for God to show his strength.”
“The role of the artist is to not look away.”
“I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on.”
“Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.”
“The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.”

Source : Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”

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