"The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds."

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Source : William Herschel (2013). “The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel”, p.337, Cambridge University Press

William Herschel

#Science Quotes #Garden Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.”
“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.”
“What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.”
“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
“You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.”

Source : Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
“Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.”
“For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.”
“Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest.”

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