"Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived."

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Source : "The Art of Scientific Investigation". Book by William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, p. 65, 1950.

William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

#Discovery Quotes #Birth Quotes

“A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”
“I do not have OCD OCD OCD.”
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”
“As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has begun with accusations of plagiarism after Mr Trump's wife Melania gave a speech dotted with sentences that appeared to have been lifted from a speech that Michelle Obama gave in 2008.”
“When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.”
“When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.”
“...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”
“Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.”

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