"It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks."

-- Anatole France

#Wise Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Walks Quotes

“I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.”
“A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.”
“Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.”
“Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.”
“That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?”
“Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.”
“There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable”

Source : "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.
“Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.”

Source : Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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