Carl Linnaeus Quotes
The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
Carl Linnaeus
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. Raman
I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram
It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
Walter Kerr
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
Faith Evans
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
Olympia Snowe
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
Victor Davis Hanson
I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.
H. A. Rey
I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.
Cilla Black
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.
Alex Pettyfer
The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.
Jean-Michel Jarre
The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
Carl Linnaeus