Barraute Quotes & Sayings

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder. — Gilbert N. Lewis

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also. — Radhanath Swami

How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together. — Sarra Manning

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. — Ted Nelson