"One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms."

-- Gottfried Leibniz

#Science Quotes #Defining Quotes #Term Quotes

“It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.”
“...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.”
“Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.”
“I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.”
“If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.”
“In the end, we all are who we are, no matter how much we may appear to have changed.”
“The materials in I Enoch range in date from 200 B.C.E. to 50 C.E. I Enoch contributes much to intertestamental views of angels, heaven, judgment, resurrection, and the Messiah. This book has left its stamp upon many of the NT writers, especially the author of Revelation.”

Source : Craig A. Evans (2005). “Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature”, Hendrickson Publishers
“I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life”

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