George Sarton Quotes
The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.
Quotes to Explore
-
I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
-
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
-
I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
-
This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
-
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
-
Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
-
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
-
We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
-
I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
-
I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
-
I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
-
Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
-
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
-
I don't drink coffee.
-
I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
-
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
-
I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
-
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
-
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
-
The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely - nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.
-
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
-
I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that's what makes you a champion.
-
The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.
