"Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always."

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Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.142

Mary Wortley Montagu

“If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.”
“If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively.”
“I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
“Wine makes all things possible.”
“The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is youâ€™re trying to say and express.”
“The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.”
“Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."”
“The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead. A world without problems to be solved would be devoid of science.”

Source : Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”

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