"[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it."

-- Edward Victor Appleton

#Spring Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Progress Quotes

“I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over a new leaf.”
“Public Broadcasting is a sandbox for the rich. The NEA and the HEH are simply enclaves of the left using your money to propagandize your children against your values.”
“It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.”
“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.”

Source : 'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54
“If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.”
“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”

Source : Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.15, Pan Macmillan
“The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.”
“My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out.”

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