Gaffkes Auto Quotes & Sayings

Will fluorine ever have practical applications?
It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that I gave this subject little thought when I undertook my researches, and I believe that all the chemists whose attempts preceded mine gave it no more consideration.
A scientific research is a search after truth, and it is only after discovery that the question of applicability can be usefully considered. — Henri Moissan

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt

Relationships are tenuous, like a fragile seedling. You could ruin its chances at growing and thriving by carelessly trampling it or shrouding it in a canopy of darkness. And also like a seedling, if you give it light and love and time for the roots to grow deeply, it'll flourish into a majestic redwood. — Brownell Landrum

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures. — Katherine Center

Intellectual capacity is no guarantee against being dead wrong. — Carl Sagan

Nat and Soris passed the bowl back and forth and watched the day fade. — Pam Brondos

Fasting men and fasting women, God has prepared forgiveness and a splendid wage.
Quran-AlAhzab(35) — Anonymous

I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat. — Maeve Binchy

At this instant, Alessandro was electrified, as if lightning had struck the telephone wire or Saint Elmo's fire had filled the room, for part of the dream that he could not recall had come back to him with full force. — Mark Helprin

New hopes are a fountain of energy. — Richard Paul Evans