"Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting."

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Source : "Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters". Book by Vera Rubin, 1997.

Vera Rubin

#Uplifting Quotes #Aggressive Quotes #Imaginative Quotes

“I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“No one respects a talent that is concealed.”
“If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.”
“Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse. (Mom - to Lara Lington)”
“Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.”
“The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.”
“I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.”
“If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!”

Source : William Shatner, David Fisher (2009). “Up Till Now: The Autobiography”, p.197, Macmillan

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