"My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too."

-- Peter De Vries

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“If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.”
“Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.”
“Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.”

Source : "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.
“Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.”
“Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.”
“With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.”
“The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures of the world. New pictures cast their influence before facts can be seen in a different perspective.”
“When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.”

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