"May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."

-- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

#Eye Quotes #Science Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.”
“It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.”
“Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.”
“I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.”
“I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.”
“The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.”
“The natural alone is permanent.”
“One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.”

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