"Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring."

-- Frans de Waal

#Mother Quotes #Successful Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.”
“Design is where science and art break even.”
“War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!”
“...The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly...are more likely to be transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the 'untreated'....”
“I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do”
“When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.”
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
“The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.”

Source : "Nobel Lectures in Physics 1991-1995" edited by Gösta Ekspong, World Scientific, (p. 161), 1997.

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