"SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind."

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Source : Mark Akenside, “Hymn To Science”

Mark Akenside

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“Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.”
“The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.”

Source : "Eva Zeisel obituary" by Tanya Harrod, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.
“A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.”
“My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.”
“President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.”
“I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.12, Penguin
“Kids know when they're getting yelled at and mocked, I can assure you.”
“A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or bonds) and the receipt of income on that wealth (such as dividends or interest). The financial system performs dismally at its advertised task, that of efficiently directing society's savings towards their optimal investment pursuits. The system is stupefyingly expensive, gives terrible signals for the allocation of capital, and has surprisingly little to do with real investment.”

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