"The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge."

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Source : Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

Oliver Lodge

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“The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.”
“Every day on the set, things change. You move things around. The actors are creating the roles and bringing them to life, and bringing the moments to life, as they happen. That's the best thing about television. I think it gets misunderstood, when there's one credit that says, "Written by," because that's certainly not the way it happens, in real life.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.”
“It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.”
“I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.”
“Its difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.”
“All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland”
“We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.”

Source : Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg (2008). “Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track”, p.176, Pearson Prentice Hall

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