A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-Duke Ellington
Tag: Quote
I have somewhere see it observed that we…
I have somewhere see it observed, that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
-Colton
I don’t give them hell I just tell…
I don’t give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
-Harry S Truman
A thing is not necessarily true because a…
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
Instead of always emphasizing what we actually know…
Instead of always emphasizing what we actually know in science, it would be enormously fruitful to focus on what we do not know. For it is here that the wonders lie. To know is the domain that is safe, where risk taking is no longer necessary. To dwell in it forever is not only to never advance, it is also to promote a deceptive and false view of ourselves as knowing more than we do, of being more powerful that we really are.
-Lewis Thomas, Former President of Sloane Kettering Cancer Institute