"[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery."

-- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

#Adventure Quotes #Science Quotes #Mind Quotes

“In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]”
“I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.”
“Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.”

Source : 1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.
“People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people freak out when they accidentally run into me, but across the board most people are really nice, so I just like to treat people how they treat me.”

Source : "The Hulk is back and ready if needed". Interview with Chris Varias, www.wtsp.com. December 31, 2014.
“I don't like being treated differently.”
“I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.”
“Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.”
“When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.”

Source : "Coleman Barks: Rumi, Grace and Human Friendship". Interview with Tami Simon, www.dailygood.org. December 29, 2013.

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