"Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Steps Quotes #Leap Quotes

“I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really hunkering down, trying to tease out the whole of the figure in the carpet.”
“Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.”
“She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.”
“Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance”

Source : "Privy counsels" by A.C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.
“There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.”
“L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.”
“Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.”
“I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage. ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.”

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