"A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less."

-- C.P. Snow

#Knowledge Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #People Quotes

“Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.”
“Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.”
“The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market.”
“It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.”
“Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.”
“I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.”
“It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.”
“In Israel, it always meant - and a lot of that is still true - there was only one kind of man you could be, there were no alternatives, no options. If you were from a good family, you were supposed to be a successful soldier at 18 and be strong, and prepared to protect your wife and family, or family and children, and be prepared to die for your country.”

Source : "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

You may also like:

Alan Sokal
Professor
Anthony Powell
Novelist
Anthony Trollope
Novelist
F. R. Leavis
G. H. Hardy
Mathematician
Graham Greene
Writer
Norman O. Brown
Writer
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Novelist
Stefan Collini
Academic