"Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries."

-- Benjamin Thompson

#Distance Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Use Quotes

“What else donâ€™t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.”
“Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.”
“War is organized murder, and nothing else.”

Source : Harry Patch, Richard van Emden (2008). “The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009”, p.201, A&C Black
“She never was really charming till she died.”
“The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.”
“Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.”

Source : "Reddit co-founder accused of stealing 4.8m JSTOR documents from MIT" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.
“You never monkey with the truth.”

Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
“I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.”

Source : "Howard Stern and the Satellite Wars". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.wired.com. March 01, 2005.

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