"Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs."

-- Martin Gardner

#Real Quotes #Self Quotes #Car Quotes

“Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.”
“Genius is perseverance in disguise.”
“I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.”

Source : "Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'" by Craig S. Smith, www.nytimes.com. January 07, 2006.
“Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.”

Source : Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.36, tredition
“I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.”
“My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.”
“The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.”
“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.”

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