"In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.”

Source : Dick Francis (2010). “Comeback”, p.16, Penguin
“Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.”
“You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.”
“Folk is bare bones music.”
“If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!”
“Sometimes the only way you could look at a person, and love them exactly the way you did before is to look at them with Brand New Eyes”
“the 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.”

Source : "The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society". Book by John Ziman, p. 56-57, 1976.
“There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.”

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