Annexe 32 Quotes & Sayings

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament ... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon. — Thomas A. Edison

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. — Wilhelm Wundt

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. — Norman Thomas

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. — Michael Baden

Thomas Paine wrote in "The Age of Reason," "In this case, the person who is irreverently called the son of God, and sometimes God himself, would have nothing else to do than to travel from world to world, in an endless succession of deaths, with scarcely a momentary interval of life. — Anonymous

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself. — Ira Glass

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se. — Mick Jones

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader. — Anne F. Beiler

Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18). — Adrian Rogers

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account. — Walter Kaufmann

I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know. — Lawrence Shepp