Eric Temple Bell Quotes

Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.

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• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

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• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

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• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

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• You were born as the one you are.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  

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• I hate birthdays.

  

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• Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

  

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• It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

  

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• My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.

  

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• Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?

  

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• 'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'

  

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• One must be something in order to do something.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

  

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• Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.

  

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• My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

  

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• The way I see it, any attention I get, for whatever reason, just draws more eyes to the causes that I believe in.

  

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• The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

  

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• I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

  

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• If you want an innovative environment, hire innovative people, listen to them tell you what they want, and do it.

  

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• I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

  

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• There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

  

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• We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

  

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• Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.

  

  Eric Temple Bell
  • Science
  • Theoretical