Cushla Tea Quotes & Sayings

If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be heard with specially close attention. Biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding.
Biology is complex, messy and richly various, like real life; it travels faster nowadays than physics or chemistry (which is just as well, since it has so much farther to go), and it travels nearer to the ground. It should therefore give us a specially direct and immediate insight into science in the making. — Peter Medawar

When I'm not acting, I like to go home and be really normal. So I usually grow out my hair until I get the next part. — Paul Dano

New York Times help-wanted ads, which were once arranged by gender to distinguish "women's work" from real careers. — Ariel Levy

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs. — Paul Engle

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. — Kenneth Clark

It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can't do is choose neither. — Philip Pullman

There is no greed in knowing what you want, getting what you want, to then having what you want. The only greed in it will be to expect what you want to fall into your lap. — Sarah Pussell

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. — Victor Hugo

I'll go to Santiago.
And the banana tree a jellyfish. — Federico Garcia Lorca