Charles Lapworth Quotes
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Endangered species are our friends.
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ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
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I still say to myself when I am depressed and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people 'Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.'
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.
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'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.
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I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
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I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.
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I always have high expectations for me.
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I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.
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George Saunders is the funniest. He makes me laugh in the way I want to laugh - with so much empathy and deep understanding of people. He illuminates things and people I've never thought about - and I've dedicated my life to the study of people and their idiosyncrasies. He is light years ahead.
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On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.
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I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.
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The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.
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We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other. No one understood us, only we two—I thought—understood one another.
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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
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Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you didn't want to be.
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Honestly, I have been able to accept my father's new relationship because you get to that point with your parents that you realise it's their life, not yours.
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Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.
