"I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it."

-- Max Perutz

#Memories Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Men Quotes

“A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.”
“As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.”
“As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.”
“He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.”

Source : 1834 Letter to Lady Grey,19 Nov.
“Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.”
“Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.”

Source : Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books
“My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.”
“One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the ability to engage the world in all of its myriad purposes, transformations, and incarnations.”

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