"Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half."

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Source : Robert Andrews Millikan (1924). “The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties”

Arthur Kornberg

#Purpose Quotes #Half Quotes #Determine Quotes

“In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.”
“If you don't know, then it's all right. There need not be any expectations. If there are no expectations, then you are free. If you expect, then you are in bondage. Choose whatever you want. Expectations are never fulfilled.”
“It isnâ€™t happiness I am concerned with but experience.”
“Songwriting's a weird game.”
“So if there were a container of contaminated urine, and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows heâ€™s got the urine. â€˜How would you like to have a million dollars?â€™ â€¦ Such things have been known to happen.”
“Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'”
“Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.”

Source : Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.19
“Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.”

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