"'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it."

-- Rudolf Virchow

#Mean Quotes #Science Quotes #People Quotes

“You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.”
“Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.”

Source : "Can the Crowd Be More Patient" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.
“I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is!”

Source : "Boro take honours in red-herring dress rehearsal" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2006.
“Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.”
“It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops”
“The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.”
“Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.”
“I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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