"The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature."

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Source : Alfred Harker (2011). “The Natural History of Igneous Rocks”, p.282, Cambridge University Press

Alfred Harker

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“We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.”
“Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.”

Source : "Ai Weiwei 'Does Not Feel Powerful". BBC, October 13, 2011.
“Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.”
“I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.”
“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

Source : "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.
“Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.”
“We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.”

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