"I was going to be a scientist."

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Ben Okri

#Scientist Quotes

“The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.”
“Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.”
“A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.”

Source : Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.
“When every moment is constantly being filmed, it's hard to relax.”

Source : "Kourtney Kardashian Interview: ‘Kourtney & Kim Take New York’ Star Talks Panic Attacks & Reality Cameras". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.
“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”
“Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.”
“We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.”
“James Comey had nine interactions with Bob Mueller after the Donald Trump's election. And in none of those, Comey testified, did he express any interest, concern, about what the Russians did, how they did it, how do we prevent it. He continuously has in fact denigrated the whole idea and dismissed that it was the Russians, and apparently hasn't yet accepted the 100-percent consensus of everybody that knows about this that this was a conscious and deliberate effort on their part to attack our democracy.”

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