"We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken."

-- John Daniel

#Life Quotes #Stars Quotes #Tides Quotes

“It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.”

Source : "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.
“The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary. And here again, first place must be taken by the development of character, especially the promotion of will-power and determination, combined with the training of joy in responsibility, and only in last place comes scientific schooling.”
“I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.....”
“My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didnâ€™t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.”
“In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.”
“I think we all feel incredibly fortunate and grateful that we're still around. We're one of the last punk-rock bands standing. And, to be honest, if we weren't getting paid well, and there weren't these teenagers coming to see it and saying, "... this is good, these guys play hard," we probably wouldn't do it.”

Source : "Punk-rocker growing older and happier". Interview with Dan DeLuca, www.philly.com. September 18, 2011.
“God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.”
“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”

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