"[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many."

-- Harold Wilson

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“I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You also get a deduction in America for taking a night school course, growing sugarcane, moving to a new city for a job, replanting a forest, insulating the attic, destroying old farm equipment, employing Native Americans, commuting to work by bicycle - but only if the bike is regularly used for a substantial portion of travel - or buying a plug-in hybrid sports car, or buying a recreational vehicle. I mean there are hundreds of them, and most of them are nuts.”
“If we control the ball, they pay.”
“My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.”
“In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.”
“I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland.”
“When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.”
“Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.”

Source : Sir John Frederick William Herschel, William Whewell, George Henry Lewes, Hermann von Helmholz, James Clerk Maxwell (1996). “The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”

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