It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Quote:- It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size--mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures--a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin.
Author:- Rosamond Purcell
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.
Man and His Symbols
Author:- Carl Jung
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Daniel Deronda
Author:- George Eliot
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is a common trick of Nature – and a profoundlysignificant one – that, just when despair is deepest,she waves a wand before the weary eyes and doesher best to waken an impossible hope.
The Listener And Other Stories
Author:- Algernon Blackwood
Category:- hope
Quote:- It is a core characteristic of science that it is never settled. To claim that "the science is settled" is to seek an end to scientific enquiry.
AGENDA 2060: The Future as It Happens
Author:- A.I. Fabler
Category:- science
Quote:- It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
The Sea Around Us
Author:- Rachel Carson
Category:- science
Quote:- it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of respectable medical research. And nobody on the outside knows, or wants to know, or is willing to find out. My parents, my friends, my teachers, wouldnt listen to me, or suggested that if it was bothering me that much I just had to quit the job. Just like that. As if that would have solved anything. As if I could ever live with such cowardice. You can't imagine, or maybe you can, how many people are convinced - without knowing the first thing about it - Animal research is essential. Americans have been hopelessly brainwashed on this issue. The animal rights people, by and large, acknowledge the essential futility of trying to change the system. So they address the smaller issues, fighting for legislation which would provide one extra visit per week to the labs by a custodian of the US dept of agriculture. Or demanding that a squirrel monkey be given an extra 12 square inches in his holding pen, before being led to the slaughter. That sort of thing. For whomever, and whatever it's worth, I hope my little write up is clear. I dont have the guts to do whats necessary. I pray there's someone out there who does. God help all of us.
Rage and Reason
Author:- Michael Tobias
Category:- science
Quote:- It is a foolish thing for people to look for a reason to live because existence itself is so valuable that there is no need for a reason to live! Stop looking for reasons to live and enjoy the mysterious gift called life!
Author:- Mehmet Murat ildan
Category:- Life
Quote:- It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.
2061: Odyssey Three
Author:- Arthur C. Clarke
Category:- science
Quote:- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Author:- Winston S. Churchill
Category:- best
Quote:- It is a great experience to be a monk to give up the fake life and embrace the real life.
Author:- Anuj Jasani
Category:- motivational,knowledge
Quote:- It is a heartbreaking exercise to contemplate the eventual loss of family, friends, and pets.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- motivational,hope,time
Quote:- It is a human instinct to feel uncomfortable about eating when we cannot see our food, it is a shame however that we dont get a similar warning when we consume previously unknown information with pathways which we cannot fully trace to its origin or intended destination.
Author:- Monaristw
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.
The Night Circus
Author:- Erin Morgenstern
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- It is a mistake not to know any foreign language, and infinitely worse to have only a superficial knowledge of a foreign language.
Words in Context: A Japanese Perspective on Language and Culture
Author:- Takao Suzuki
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is a mystery to me why some mere minutes transform into moments, hovering outside of time. And how they ebb and flow, stirring wonder and the ache for more. I know the love of a God who is beyond all wanting, but the more I live, the more I want and want and want.
No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
Author:- Kate Bowler
Category:- time
Quote:- It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.
At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Author:- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Category:- time