"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."

-- Rudolph A. Marcus

#Research Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Program Quotes

“I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.”
“Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.”
“The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.”
“It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.”

Source : Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.193, Book Publishing Company
“What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.”
“Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.”
“Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.”
“A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.”

Source : "The Rules of Sociological Method". Book by Emile Durkheim (p. 10), 1895.

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