"An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery."

-- Enrico Fermi

#Discovery Quotes #Predictions Quotes #Experiments Quotes

“Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.”
“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
“Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.”

Source : Francine Rivers (1995). “As Sure as the Dawn”, p.140, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
“It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.”
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.”
“I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?”

Source : Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan
“There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.”

Source : Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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