"Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer."

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

#Life Quotes #Astronomers Quotes #Said Quotes

“I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.”
“The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.”
“The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”
“There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.”
“Everything is contagious in baseball.”
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
“Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.”
“Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components â€“ that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.”

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