"In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience."

-- Niels Bohr

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“Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.”

Source : Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”
“My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.”
“People are more than just the way they look.”
“There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.”
“You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.”

Source : "ESPN's New Master of the Offensive Foul". www.nytimes.com. July 31, 2005.
“We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power and a vision far beyond any rational thought or cultural creation of which we are capable.”
“I love those who can smile in trouble...”
“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.”

Source : Attributed to Emile Durkheim in "Readings in Renewing American Civilization" edited by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Albert Stephen Hanser (p. 54), 1993.

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