"Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority."

-- Robert Anton Wilson

#Men Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Innovation Quotes

“Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.”
“I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.”
“When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that canâ€™t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesnâ€™t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.”
“Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.”
“Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!”

Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “Adventure”
“If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.”
“In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.”
“Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.”

Source : Bruce Tognazzini (1992). “Tog on Interface”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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