"[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind."

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William Lawrence Bragg

#Writing Quotes #Science Quotes #Order Quotes

“It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.”
“When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.”
“One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.”
“I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.”
“The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.”
“Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.”
“The word â€˜slaveryâ€™ and â€˜rightâ€™ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.”
“Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.”

Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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