"The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things."

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Source : Robert Hooke (1906). “Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”

Robert Hooke

#Long Quotes #Brain Quotes #Fancy Quotes

“New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.”
“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”
“A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.”

Source : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.932, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.”
“I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.”

Source : "Interview: Director Jon M. Chu On 'Extraordinary Dancers', 'G.I. Joe 2', and 'Masters Of The Universe'". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2012.
“With Michael Jackson, what I thought was really interesting was the people saying: 'He looked really well in that final video.' I was, like: 'No, he didn't - he looked like someone had melted goat's cheese over a sex doll.'”
“If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.”
“We care little about what the average citizen thinks.”

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