"When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck."

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Source : Lewis Wolpert (2014). “The Unnatural Nature of Science”, p.79, Faber & Faber

Lewis Wolpert

#Irritation Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Mind Quotes

“We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.”

Source : "White Man's Bible". Book by Ben Klassen, 1983.
“Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.”
“He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.”
“Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.”
“I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.”

Source : "Brothers who would be king". Interview With Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.
“And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.”
“If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will be owned by the Brunswick Group. It's quite different.”
“When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.”

Source : "Korchemny in plea bargain" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2005.

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