"The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness."

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Source : "York University: The Way Must Be Tried" by Michiel Horn, (p. 4), 2008.

Pierre Trudeau

#Past Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Our Future Quotes

“A beloved student of mine told me she believed the earth was approximately 6,000 years old. She was smart, she was thoughtful, and she was wrong. But I couldn't discount her - I respected her too much. So I debated with her, using every bit of science and logic I had, but I still failed to convince her that the earth was billions of years old.”

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“What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt.”
“Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.”
“In theory, if a gun is left at the scene of a crime, licensing and registration will allow a gun to be traced back to its owner. But, amazingly, despite police spending tens of thousands of man-hours administering these laws ... there is not even a single case where the laws have been instrumental in identifying someone who has committed a crime.”
“The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.”
“silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?”
“People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of physics, and say that in that sense I believe in God. The reaction is, "Oh, this great physicist believes in God - that means I'm free to believe in the trinity and in the crucifixion and in the reincarnation of Christ" - and all that stuff, which of course has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental constants of physics, which is what these physicists are talking about.”
“I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.”

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