"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."

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Source : Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

Lord Kelvin

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“Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.129, Courier Corporation
“There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.”
“I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.”
“I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.”
“My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.”

Source : "Portrait of the Artist: Elaine Paige, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2007.
“And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.”
“In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.”
“Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.”

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