"It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'"

-- Charles Babbage

#Discovery Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.”

Source : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
“People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.”
“Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.”
“What you think about, talk about, and get off your ***** and do something about, comes about.”
“Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation”
“But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.”
“Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.”
“It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.”

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