"A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was."

-- Theodore von Karman

#Scientist Quotes

“Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
“Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.”
“It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty. To go to communion worthily gives God great glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a sloppail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.”
“God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.”
“My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.”

Source : "Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story". Book by A. E. Hotchner, 1979.
“To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.”

Source : John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2010). “Modern English Drama”, p.116, Cosimo, Inc.

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