Griesson Quotes & Sayings

Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive now. Alternatively, any young scientist, starting now and looking back at the end of his career upon a normal life span, will find that 80 to 90 percent of all scientific work achieved by the end of the period will have taken place before his very eyes, and that only 10 to 20 percent will antedate his experience. — Derek J. De Solla Price

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought. — Herman Kahn

A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV. — Lauren Conrad

And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments. — Yaroslav Trofimov

I don't pretend to understand these feelings, but I'm willing to let the inexplicable sit sacred. — Marlena De Blasi

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done. — P. J. O'Rourke

One thing that man HAS learned from history, is how to kill (animals) more efficiently. — Diane Van Der Westhuizen

Group Thinking" or lack of courage to ask the tough and strategic questions is the chief weakness on Boards today. — Pearl Zhu

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important. — Peter Thiel

It was easy to read him as shy or uncertain, she thought, but he really wasn't either. — Maggie Stiefvater

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. — Oscar Wilde