"The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts."

-- Joseph Henry

#Imagination Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Important Quotes

“Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.”
“Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.198, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Now, I have a Halloween mask I think you might get a kick out of. That's scary.”
“Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.”
“I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.”
“Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book”
“First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.”

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