"History is an argument without end."

-- Pieter Geyl

#History Quotes #Argument Quotes #Ends Quotes

“You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.”
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”
“Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.”
“Books were my pass to personal freedom.”
“It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in prison. It's appropriate that we're responding now by trying to get people the treatment they so desperately need. The racial divide here is absolutely unacceptable, and we have to do much better for all people who are addicted whether they are white, black, brown, any race - the humane way to respond to addiction is in a public health fashion and by getting people the help they need.”
“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.”

Source : David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.6, Penguin UK
“Where do you get dreams like this?”
“A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you donâ€™t really know what the final result will be before you have it.”

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