"When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things."

-- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

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“There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.”
“People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.”
“Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that.”
“You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.”
“Numerical precision is the very soul of science.”

Source : D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.2, Cambridge University Press
“I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it and to live with it happily, till death do ye part - unless you should meet another and even more fascinating problem or unless, indeed, you should obtain a solution. But even if you do obtain a solution, you may then discover, to your delight, the existence of a whole family of enchanting, though perhaps difficult, problem children, for whose welfare you may work, with a purpose, to the end of your days.”
“I've been dealing with being overlooked my whole life.”
“Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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