"D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. ... Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong."

-- Jean le Rond d'Alembert

#Mind Quotes #Lightning Quotes #Research Quotes

“I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.”
“Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!”
“Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.”
“Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.”
“My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.”
“The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 21, 2015
“In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.”
“I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.”

Source : "E1000000: F-bomb Friday with 500 Startups’ Dave McClure". Interview with Jason Calacanis, thisweekinstartups.com. November 16, 2013.

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