"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god."

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Source : "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

John B. S. Haldane

#Funny Quotes #Science Quotes #Fire Quotes

“My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.”
“The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.”
“I think Japans work really hard, and when they have a chance to listen to music, they just go crazy. And the Ramones would be a natural fit for Japan, because Japan invented the cartoon, and the Ramones, especially in Rock 'N' Roll High School, are very cartoonish. So it'd be a perfect group for them.”
“She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.”
“I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.”
“My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.”
“When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.450, Macmillan
“The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too.”

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