(1553 quotes found)
“Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit”
Marie Curie
“Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding”
Chungliang Al Huang
“What? Ridden on a horse?''Yes''You're using coconuts!''What?''You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together!''So?”
Monty Python
“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”
William Shakespeare
“it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.”
Carlos Castaneda
“My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships.”
Carol Gilligan
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all”
Charles Babbage
“Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head”
