"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement."

-- John Charles Polanyi

#Country Quotes #Encouragement Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.”

Source : Keith L. Moore (1992). “Clinically oriented anatomy”
“Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a perfect fit for Tom Stoppard's astonishing 1993 play, which is as beautiful as it is brilliant. This is one Stoppard drama that you don't have to be Einstein to understand -- you can feel it as well as think it. (...) Breathtaking, exhilarating and deeply satisfying.”
“I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.”
“Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.”
“Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.”

Source : "New kid on the block" by Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.
“With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.”
“Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The last kiss is given to the void.”

Source : Aidan Higgins (1997). “Flotsam and jetsam”

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