"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Science Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.”
“The doctor brushed past her and gestured at the holographic image that jutted from the netscreen. "Let me tell you what is peculiar about it" "I'd say 36.28 percent of it is pretty peculiar”
“It hit me very early on that something was terribly wrong, that I would see silos full of food and supermarkets full of food, and kids starving. ... In Fair Trade, we see ourselves as this infinitesimal part of the world economy. But somebody's got to come up with an alternative model that says children eating is No. 1.”
“All improvement happens project by project and in no other way.”
“I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”
“I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.”

Source : Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.83, CLC Publications
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”

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