George Sarton Quotes
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
-
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
-
I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
-
I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
-
Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
-
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
-
When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
-
I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
-
I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.
-
Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
-
I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
-
Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
-
You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.
-
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
-
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
-
I only had a cough and spit role as a prostitute but they put my bit in the advert the last time it was on TV so I got 'oh, working with Owen Wilson are you?' I got a lot of ribbing about being the whore in Shanghai Knights.
-
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
-
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
-
To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it
-
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.
-
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
