"All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable."

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Source : Simon Singh (2004). “Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and why You Need to Know about it”

Simon Singh

#Couple Quotes #Men Quotes #Brain Quotes

“My love of books was all that saved me.”
“Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.”
“Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow”
“You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.”
“You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.”
“Learn to express, not impress.”
“Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!”
“He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that quality was too difficult for Hitler to swallow for long. At conferences Manstein often differed from Hitler, in front of others, and would go so far as to declare that some of the ideas which Hitler put forward were nonsense.”

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