"To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise."

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Source : Joseph Needham, Gwei-Djen Lu (1985). “Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again”, p.64, World Scientific

Joseph Needham

#Real Quotes #Aztec Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.”
“I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.”
“If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.”
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”

Source : Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley
“If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.”

Source : "Dick Clark, Entertainment Icon Nicknamed 'America's Oldest Teenager,' Dies at 82" by Julia Kathan, Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. April 18, 2012.
“I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time...they deserve none of mine.”
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
“I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.”

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