"I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of experimentation. When it is going well, it is like a quiet conversation with Nature. One asks a question and gets an answer, then one asks the next question and gets the next answer. An experiment is a device to make Nature speak intelligibly. After that, one only has to listen."

-- George Wald

#Hands Quotes #Answers Quotes #Way Quotes

“There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.
“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.”

Source : Quoted in Pappus, Synagoge
“Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?”
“The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.”
“The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.”
“I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.”
“Comedy is often about pain.”
“I believe you came into the world to accomplish something, and that the something you came to accomplish is not small or insignificant, that's not worthy of you. You came here to make a major contribution to life on this planet.”

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