"When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'"

-- Arthur Eddington

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“All I knew about shot putting was that my brother could do 44 feet ... I decided I wanted to beat him. ... So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.”

Source : "Film Star and Olympian Herman Brix" by Adam Bernstein, www.washingtonpost.com. February 28, 2007.
“Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.”
“Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.”
“The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.”
“Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.”
“As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.”

Source : Elizabeth A. Johnson (2011). “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Ours is indeed a culture that tends to assign value to a woman based on her sex appeal rather than her character, and thatâ€™s something we must work to change.”
“More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.”

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