"Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride."

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Source : Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.

Claude Bernard

#Science Quotes #Pride Quotes #Proportion Quotes

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
“Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.”

Source : 1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.
“The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.”
“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune”
“Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.”

Source : Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.44
“I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.”
“Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.”

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