"Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress."

-- Lisa Randall

#Ideas Quotes #Progress Quotes #Exploration Quotes

“When a child is born, there are two births. The birth of the child and the birth of the mother.”
“When I received the invitation to "check out" Fairport I knew absolutely nothing about them, all I knew was that they were beginning to establish themselves as an underground favorite, by playing regularly at the UFO club in Covent Garden. But the crowd I was running with at the time were listening to a completely different genre of music. So I had nothing to go on, there was nothing on vinyl, Fairport's recording days were still ahead of them.”
“We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.”
“There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.”
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.”

Source : "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.
“The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.”
“It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.”
“The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.”

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