"It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Lying Quotes #Spring Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
“The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.”
“A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.”
“It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.”
“Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.”
“I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 oâ€™clock at night, it doesnâ€™t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you canâ€™t eat it, itâ€™s not food, and if you canâ€™t wear it, itâ€™s not fashion, it is something else.'”
“I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.”
“If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet”

Source : "Speaking of Science Fiction". Book by Paul Walker, 1978.

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