"I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

George Coyne

#Ivory Tower Quotes #Giving Quotes #Towers Quotes

“Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.”
“A â€¦ difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare.”
“I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what technique means. But I do know what experience is. I know in my gut when I've done a scene right.”
“I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.”
“Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.160, Simon and Schuster
“In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.”
“It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.”

Source : "90210's Shenae Grimes Don't Call Me Skinny!". Interview with Monica Rizzo, people.com. December 8, 2008.
“So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.”

Source : American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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