Abdelhafid Boussouf Quotes & Sayings

The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have. — Christopher Zeeman

Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And no firm, I have noticed, has the depth anywhere like that. — William D. Cohan

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well. — David Hockney

"You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and ... " — Ruth Park

Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn?
Laddy Maccon sighed. Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed. — Gail Carriger

I remembered he terrified me. And there was reason. He was terrifying. — Kristen Ashley

I'm not a tour rat. I'm not crazy about it. — Bob Seger

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. — William Cowper

Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap ... We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law. — Nina Hagen

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. — Tracey Emin