"When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in particular gave a new charter to biochemical thought, and with the discovery of vitamins that charter was extended."

-- Frederick Gowland Hopkins

#Science Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours”
“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”
“It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.”
“We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'”

Source : Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.17, North Atlantic Books
“You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.”
“We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.”
“Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid.”

Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

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