A Quotes
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“a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when the insight comes, and is endlessly attracted to working out the idea.”
Source: Women in Science: Then and Now
“A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.”
Source: Conjure Wife
“A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.”
“A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.”
“A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external power. A yogi sets out to explore his own internal nature, to penetrate the atom (atma) of being. He does not gain dominion over wide lands and restless seas, but over his own recalcitrant flesh and febrile mind.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“A scientist should be the happiest of men.”
“A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.”
“A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.”
“A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.”
“A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at once. We must content ourselves with tracking it down, enveloped in considerable darkness, which leads us to make new mistakes and errors. By diligent examination, we may at length little by little peel off the thickest layers, but we seldom get the core quite free, so that finally we have to be satisfied with a little incomplete knowledge.”
“A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.”
“A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.”
“A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.”
“A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.”
“A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.”
Source: Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist
“A scientist works to preserve life, Politician plays publicity with death.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“A scientist would say an oxygen starved brain hallucinates, whereas a spiritual person would say the brain is having a near death experience and has connected with the spirits.”
“A scientist would state that a person is hallucinating due to oxygen starvation to the brain, whereas a spiritual person would say that the oxygen starved brain has connected into the spiritual universe.”
“A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.”
Source: The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories
“A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.”
“A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.”
“A scolded mouse knows no grievance.”
“A scoop of pure honey set in a green bowl.”
“A scorecard assesses progress to strategic goals whereas a dashboard assesses performance to operational goals.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.”
“A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.”
“A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.”
“A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.”
“A Scotsman once wrote that “the real Scottish terrier has the most characteristic facial expression. Jock is a thinker, philosopher, and seer . . . there should be a cast of thought upon his face even when he is a puppy and knows naught of men and dogs and things from personal experience.” You had the cast of thought upon your puppy face, but your philosophy was one of beaming approval of the world in which you found yourself.”
Source: Portrait of a Dog
“A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.”
Source: Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
“A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.”
Source: Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
“A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.”
“A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.”
Source: Theological texts
“A scream is coming, Paddy knows that much, from somewhere deep. What he doesn’t know is when and where it will happen. Now—in the middle of a hospital—is not a good time and place. Mia and Oksy have had their fill of screams.
It will have to wait. He will have to keep the outside part of himself open for business while the inside part is swollen and bleeding..”
Source: Mia's Magic Wand
“A scream pierced the sky, a child’s, so loud he dropped his cup, his right hand ready to reach for a weapon that wasn’t there. A survival reflex from another city, another part of the world. He tried to relax, but the scream had been real. Not like the whining wail he loathed, not even the shocked cry of a kid who’d just hurt himself. This scream had mortal fear in it. After three tours in Afghanistan, he knew the difference.”
Source: When the children come
“A scream starts in my gut—I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, leaves in my hair. I don’t remember passing out. David says I hit my head on the edge of the table on my way down. The nurse calls my mom because I need stitches. The doctor stares into the back of my eyes with a bright light. Can she read the thoughts hidden there? If she can, what will she do? Call the cops? Send me to the nuthouse? Do I want her to? I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won’t. I’ll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head.”
Source: Speak
“A scream that held more than life and death, for it also held her soul, as everything she was departed this world with the one she was bonded to forever.”
Source: Enticed
“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”
Source: Gravity’s Rainbow
“A screaming comes across the sky.”
“A screaming silence surrounds us. The waves claw the shore in hushed strokes. My words claw at my throat. “In silent words, you speak so much.”
“And you, though you speak volumes, say precious little. Don’t you know that words are actors set in motion, and you are the playwright. They can create a mood of harmony or destroy peace in violent isolation. Words are civilians or soldiers; artists or autocrats; worshippers or pagans. They make you rich or sell you into poverty. Master them and you rule, or be mastered by them and serve.” She pauses as if in reflection.
“Words can sway the masses; words can sway your own soul.”
Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness
“A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.”
“A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
“A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.”
“A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.”
“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.”
“A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.”
“A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.”
“A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You need a good script, don't get me wrong, but you need all those other things to make a good movie. You really do.”
“A script is like a theory of a movie.”
“A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.”