"...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation."

-- William Whewell

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“Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
“I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.”
“The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.”
“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.”
“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.”
“History will judge societies and governments â€” and their institutions â€” not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.”

Source : "Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit". Book by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia, September 15, 1995.
“Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.”

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