"I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one."

-- C.P. Snow

#Adequate Quotes #Scientist Quotes #Made Quotes

“Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.”

Source : Paul De Man (1979). “Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust”, p.5, Yale University Press
“The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God's love.”
“First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.”
“I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.”
“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.”
“I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.”
“I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.”
“I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up”

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