"A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Science Quotes #Unlikely Quotes #Neat Quotes

“I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.”

Source : Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books
“You can't be a part-time man of principle.”
“We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.”
“The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.”

Source : Junichiro Tanizaki (1957). “The Makioka Sisters”
“We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reason.”
“Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.”
“The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.”
“I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.”

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