"By far the best proof is experience."

-- Francis Bacon

#Science Quotes #Experience Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.”
“Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.”

Source : "Until They Eat Stones" by Russell Brines, (p. 254), 1944.
“When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.”
“Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.”
“In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.”
“it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.”
“You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.”
“I'd like to see Paris before I die.”

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