"Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case."

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Peter Medawar

#Reality Quotes #Might Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.”
“The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.”
“Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.”
“That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.”
“I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.”
“I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.”
“In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.”

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