"I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true."

-- Ernest Lawrence

#Past Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Progress Quotes

“If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.”
“Thereâ€™s going to be a lesbian Brokeback Mountain and itâ€™s going to star Beyonce and Eva Longoria,”
“The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we donâ€™t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.”
“Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.”
“Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.”
“The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.”
“Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.”
“Morality is stronger than tyrants.”

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