August Wilhelm von Hofmann Quotes

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

August Wilhelm von Hofmann

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• It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Interesting

• I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sing

• I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Need
  • Immigration
  • Rules

• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Political
  • Government
  • Moral

• Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Good
  • Journalism
  • Last

• I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

  

  David Icke
  • Men
  • Green

• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Mind
  • Reason
  • Order

• All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Animal
  • Certain
  • Projects

• The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • Gun
  • Murder

• This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Past
  • Moment

• The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Future

• Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Love
  • Played
  • Musicians

• The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Carry

• At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their pain and they aren't really going to be allowed to escape it and outrun it forever without side effects and certain consequences, as far as emotional and mental happiness and their physical condition. And I'd like people to be aware of those things.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • People
  • Good
  • Pain

• I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

  

  August Wilhelm von Hofmann
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