"Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics."

-- George Smoot

#Parent Quotes #Mathematics Quotes #Interest Quotes

“I like people who can't die in their bed.”
“Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Weidman from Apr 06, 2013
“I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!”
“The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.”
“Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.”
“I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.”

Source : "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.
“I used to hate the urban environment and the urban din. But I realize now that it's really not that much different than living next to a waterfall for wildlife. Most wildlife - unless they're specifically adapted - avoid being around a waterfall or whitewater streams and rivers because it jams their sense of surveillance. They are more vulnerable, and their message loses intelligibility. Now, the ouzel is able to overcome that in various ways. Back to the urban environment, we're talking and delivering messages as if we weren't next to a waterfall, and that's a problem.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.”

Source : Mark Tobey, Arthur L. Dahl (1984). “Mark Tobey, art and belief”, George Ronald Pub Ltd

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