"My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him."

-- John Henry Carver

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“I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.”
“If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.”
“A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.”
“Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.”

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“Synthesis..., perhaps in greater measure than activities in any other area of organic chemistry, provides a measure of the condition and power of science. For synthetic undertakings are seldom if ever undertaken by chance, nor will the most painstaking, or inspired, purely observational activities suffice. Synthesis must always be carried out by plan.”
“If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then thereâ€™s nothing that you cannot justify. Thereâ€™s nothing you canâ€™t survive, because thereâ€™s nothing that you will not do.”

Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.141, Vintage
“The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.”
“I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.”

Source : "Some Reflections on the Present Status of Organic Chemistry, in Science and Human Progress". Addresses at the Celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Mellon Institute, 1963.

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