"The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists."

-- Robert Pollack

#Truth Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Mistake Quotes

“The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.”
“I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.”

Source : "Ronnie". Book by Ronnie Drew, September 3, 2009.
“The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.”
“There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.”
“How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.”
“All strategy depends on competition.”
“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
“He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.”

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