"In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects."

-- Rene Dubos

#Meaningful Quotes #Running Quotes #Dark Quotes

“I've seen teams spend Â£150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.”
“The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems pertaining to the logical forms of thought and the connection of thought with things.”
“6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.”
“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.”
“The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
“What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.”
“I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.”
“We love the night and it's quiet.”

Source : Fitz James O'Brien (1889). “What was It?: And Other Stories”

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