"The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world."

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Source : Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, p. 88, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.

Max Delbruck

#Dream Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.137, Kent State University Press
“There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.”
“I'm obsessed with food!”

Source : "Sofia Vergara Spills All: The Smurfs and Modern Family Star Opens Up About Being a Young Mom and Surviving Divorce and Cancer". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. August 16, 2011.
“I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.”
“Everything I do is to become better, the best ever and I'm not going to stop.”
“You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.”
“I don't think I'll ever get used to the pressures of fame. I have two-pointsomething million followers on Twitter, and if I say something, they all listen. It's crazy! I shouldn't be allowed that responsibility.”
“That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.”

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