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“I'd rather be loyal than right.”
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“Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?”
Source : Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.
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“People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds,”
Source : "Robert Downey Jr. On Dating Sarah Jessica Parker, Parenting And Drug Use", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2008.
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“You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.”
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“I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.”
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“The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.”
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“Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.”
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“My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.”
Source : "Hans Rosling: the man who's making data cool". Interview with Claire Provost, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.