Csumb Ilearn Quotes & Sayings

It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'
however well attested
until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind. — Arthur C. Clarke

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof. — Kristen Johnston

Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice. — Melina Marchetta

I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words. — Jerry Della Femina

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople. — Seth Godin

There's a pattern here. In summing up the language of matter, space, and time, I concluded that they are measured by human goals, not just by a scale, a clock, and a tape measure. Now we see that the fourth major category in conceptual semantics, causality, also cares about our intentions and interests. — Steven Pinker

Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.'
All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab. — Robert Rankin

I never had the chutzpah to just come to L.A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job. — Isla Fisher

There's doubt in trying.
Just do it or stop thinking. — Toba Beta

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. — W.C. Fields

It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay and disruption of the Roman Empire, the consequent disorganisation of society, and the diversion of men's thoughts from sublunary matters to the problems of the supernatural world suggested by Christian dogma in the Middle Ages. And, notwithstanding sporadic attempts to recall men to the investigation of nature, here and there, it was not until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that physical science made a new start, founding itself, at first, altogether upon that which had been done by the Greeks. Indeed, it must be admitted that the men of the Renaissance, though standing on the shoulders of the old philosophers, were a long time before they saw as much as their forerunners had done. — Thomas Henry Huxley

We were emboldened by our ignorance. — Gary Ward

We would go to visit a wholesaler, say in Napoli. We would go out, have a very long lunch, mozzarellas, wine. We would reach an agreement. And then the client would pay with a cheque that was postdated by six months, nine months. They were financing themselves by delaying their payments. — Sandro Veronesi

It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say. — Scott Berkun