"I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it."

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Source : N. David Mermin (2016). “Why Quark Rhymes with Pork: And Other Scientific Diversions”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

David Mermin

#Discovery Quotes #People Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.”

Source : Kim Chernin (1984). “In My Mother's House”, Perennial
“Let us protect with love all that God has given us!”
“The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.”
“It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.”
“If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.”
“But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.”
“Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.”
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”

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