"If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours"

-- James Jones

#Eye Quotes #This Life Quotes #Glances Quotes

“In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.”
“... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.”
“The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.”
“Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 19, 2018
“What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.”

Source : John Gresham Machen (1951). “What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses”
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
“Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.”
“Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.”

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