"You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about."

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Source : Connie Willis (1996). “Futures Imperfect”, Doubleday Books

Connie Willis

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Secret Quotes

“What I have related is sufficient for establishing the main principle, namely, that the heat which disappears in the conversion of water into vapour, is not lost, but is retained in vapour, and indicated by its expansive form, although it does not affect the thermometer. This heat emerges again from this vapour when it becomes water, and recovers its former quality of affecting the thermometer; in short, it appears again as the cause of heat and expansion.”
“I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.”
“If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.”
“I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.”
“Very early in my life it was already too late.”
“Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.”
“My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.”

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