"Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted."

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Source : "Surfing the Universe" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#Ninety Quotes #Cents Quotes

“A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.”
“After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.”
“Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.”
“Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?”

Source : Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub
“We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.”
“I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.524, University of Pittsburgh Pre
“The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.”

Source : "Venezuela’s Elections: A Building Block to Something Bigger" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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