"It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling to take no for an answer. A love affair with a pet hypothesis can waste years of precious time. There is very often no finally decisive yes, though quite often there can be a decisive no."

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Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

Peter Medawar

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“The mathematics is the odd one, odd because I'm not sure how to measure its effect. It is so fundamental to my outlook on everything and yet I'm not even sure how. It must be because in my formative years it was everything to me, the single place of beauty in my life, and of breathtaking beauty at that. I still believe that pure mathematics is the most creative thing that humanity does, though I am no longer a part of it.”
“Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.”

Source : Will Eisner (2008). “Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company
“The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?”
“Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.”
“I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.”
“I will survive. As long as I know how to love, I know I'll be alive.”
“I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.”
“Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.”

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