"A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]"

-- John Charles Polanyi

#Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Science Quotes

“At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.”
“A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.26, Random House
“Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to be able to identify that specific piece of DNA that has become mutated and that is driving cancer growth.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.”
“Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.”
“The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.421
“Where is your unit?" Murphy asked. I wiggled my eyebrows at her. "Right where it's always been, dollface.”

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