"The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action."

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Source : John Desmond Bernal (1965). “Science in history”

John Desmond Bernal

#Science Quotes #Men Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrÃ©es battling to see who'll be dinner.”
“And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.”

Source : "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.
“The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.”

Source : "The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England". Book by Edward Coke, 1642.
“Dont chase after the people that hurt you, replace them with people that care.”
“Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster
“I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.”
“How come when I was a kid, I couldn't be picked on bullies like that?”
“...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.45, Canongate Books

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