"Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts."

-- Charles Babbage

#Powerful Quotes #Science Quotes #Effort Quotes

“We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.”
“My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.”
“We're not polishing fine china here.”
“The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.”

Source : Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (2009). “The Complete Collected Works of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (Hardcover Edition)”, p.456, Seed of Life Publishing
“Thank you for letting idiots like me, come out and live this wonderful wonderful dream. I love you to death. Lets go home.”
“Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.”
“Man is ill because he is never still.”
“Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values, of progress, of civilization - because how could you possibly move forward if you break technology? I think that that misses the point, that if you introduce any kind of technology, what you're introducing is a new way of living and the consequences of that new way of living for people who were enmeshed in a different way of living need to be thought through.”

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