“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life – so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.”
M. Cartmill quotes
M. Cartmill
More Stories Like These
"Excluding the rise in the fuel bill, the industry has actually achieved a ‘normal’ cyclical recovery in profitability." – Brian Pearce
“Excluding the rise in the fuel bill, the industry has actually achieved a ‘normal’ cyclical recovery in profitability.” …
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. -Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. -Tennyson, …
Unity
Necessity unites. – Proverb, German
"A person knows whom to trust the most when he clearly knows who puts the trust on him in time of his wealth lost." – Anuj Somany
“A person knows whom to trust the most when he clearly knows who puts the trust on him …
George Henry Lewes
“Insight is the first condition of Art.” George Henry Lewes quotes
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
French Proverb: When the words are said, …
When the words are said, the holy water is made. French Proverb Proverb Link: When the words are …
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate’s claws. -Thomas Tusser
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate’s claws. …
Olive Schreiner
“We bear the world and we make it… There was never a great man who had not a …
Brian Keenan
Hostage is a crucifying aloneness. It is a silent, screaming slide into the bowels of ultimate despair. Hostage …