"As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone."

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Stanley Schmidt

#Two Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Century Quotes

“As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.”
“I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.”
“The passions do not die out; they burn out.”
“Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.”
“Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.”

Source : Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research is a Passion with Me”, p.41, Dundurn
“[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.”
“To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.”

Source : Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.142, Modern Library
“All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.”

Source : Joseph Sugarman (2012). “The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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