"We especially need imagination in science. Question everything."

-- Maria Mitchell

#Imagination Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything ...”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.283, Atlantic Monthly Press
“All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.”
“The price of loyalty is incompetence.”

Source : Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”
“Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.”
“For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.”
“When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.”
“I always use a really simple analogy: if you're putting organic food on your table because you care about eating well, shouldn't you be trying to do the same with what you're putting on your body? Our skin is our biggest organ. Everyday you are absorbing things through it. The way that a cream without the right ingredients can affect you, everything you put on your skin matters.”
“The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.”

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