"Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before."

-- Lewis Thomas

#Science Quotes #Realization Quotes #Astonishment Quotes

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
“Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.”
“Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.”
“God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.”

Source : "Mary for Earth and Heaven" by William McLaughlin, p. 115-116, 2002.
“The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.”
“It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.”

Source : Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”
“I'm just so extremely lucky to have amazing Enchancers and all people around me...”
“I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working musician. I didn't want to be Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark, but I wanted to play in front of their audiences, you know what I mean?”

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