"If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole,you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again."

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Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.54, Harvard University Press

Hans Christian von Baeyer

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“There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.”
“If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.”
“[T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the Right is based on the belief that the rest of the world is bad for America.”
“Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.”
“My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests.”
“So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.”
“Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.”

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