"[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration."

-- Robert Watson-Watt

#Believe Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Science Quotes

“I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.”
“however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.”
“We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.”

Source : Labour Party Annual Conference Report, (p. 188), 1976.
“When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us.”
“The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand.”
“There's nothing you could say that would shock me.”
“When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.”
“When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.”

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