"Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory."

-- John Tuzo Wilson

#Woods Quotes #Elegance Quotes #Theory Quotes

“What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn whatâ€™s important.”
“That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important”

Source : "Brendan Rodgers: Spain have been a great model for me over many years". Interview With Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2012.
“I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?”

Source : David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.72, Wesleyan University Press
“To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.”
“Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.”
“Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.”
“I'm not a fashionista - I adore creative and original people with their own style.”
“Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less expensive and less expressive than the plain doing of duty. To have bread excite thankfulness and a drink of water send the heart to God is better than sighs for the unattainable. To plow a straight furrow on Monday or dust a room well on Tuesday or kiss a bumped forehead on Wednesday is worth more than the most ecstatic thrill under Sunday eloquence. Spirituality is seeing God in common things, and showing God in common tasks.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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