Arthur Eddington Quotes
Study of the scientific world cannot prescribe the orientation of something which is excluded from the scientific world.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers, and they work their magic.
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Good God, what a brute man becomes when ignorant and oppressed. Oh Liberty! What horrors are committed in thy name! May every virtuous revolutionist remember the horrors of Wexford!
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When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
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In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.
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The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.
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Study of the scientific world cannot prescribe the orientation of something which is excluded from the scientific world.
