"No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present."

-- C.P. Snow

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.”
“The fact is that when you are in a clean, clear state of mind you will be free to pay full attention to what you are doing and you will therefore naturally do it well. Problems come when you are not living in a natural state of mind. Then, no matter what you are doing your mind will be on something else.”
“As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.”
“The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.”
“The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't work together”
“I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal.”

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“Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.”
“Have the confidence to fail. Persistence is key.”

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