J. Allen Hynek Quotes
As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.
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Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.
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The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
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I have a tendency to become very self-critical.
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As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
