"When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp."

-- Ray Stannard Baker

#Country Quotes #Science Quotes #Vacuums Quotes

“It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.”
“Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.”
“M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste”
“I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.”
“They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of childrenâ€™s literature of the twentieth century.”
“Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.”
“Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.”

Source : Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time”, p.8, A&C Black
“I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week - it might be really nice to stay in!”

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