"When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?"

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Source : Leo Szilard (1961). “The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories”, p.53, Stanford University Press

Leo Szilard

#Politician Quotes #Scientist Quotes

“You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.”
“During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around.”

Source : "Presidential election enters dog days - US politics live", www.theguardian.com. 2012.
“What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?”
“Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.”
“Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians have trouble executing a passage, they generally tend to blame themselves for not having enough talent. Actually, all that's wrong is they don't know where their fingers are supposed to go...you should learn the piece in your head before you play it. And when you do play it, play it so slow that there's no possibility of making a mistake.”
“Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.”
“I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give you a humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of people, or the iniquity of the times may rob you of other rewards.”

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