"Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science."

-- Hal Clement

#Tests Quotes #Superstitions Quotes #Speculation Quotes

“You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It's hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren't quite ready to give up on him yet.”
“He doesnâ€™t pretend,â€ the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. â€œNice rings. You got anything else pierced?â€ â€œYes,â€ Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. â€œMe too,â€ he said.”
“It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.”
“It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.”
“People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.”
“I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.”
“All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.”
“If I love you more than you love me, Iâ€™m as good as dead. Yet I canâ€™t make myself take it back. I canâ€™t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like Iâ€™m dying inside.”

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