"It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them."

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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

#Science Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Prevailing Quotes

“I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.”
“It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.”
“Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.”
“My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.”
“This is the great Secret of life.”
“Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.1
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

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