Guest Service Excellence Quotes & Sayings

Long a topic of interest for history and philosophy of science, the Copernican Revolution more recently has become a favorite symbol for popular science writers. This symbol is used in two main ways, both of which shade easily into the mythic. First, the Copernican Revolution is invoked to mark a point of grand transformation between anthropocentric and objective thinking. Second, many portrayals of the Copernican Revolution heroize its protagonist and ritualize his deed. The Copernican Revolution designates an alleged shift in worldview that took place in the past, but also a sort of personal microcosm of that event - a rite of passage that any mind aspiring to science must undergo. The term "myth" in some usages becomes a near-synonym for pre-Copernican thought - a definition that is maddeningly inadequate even though refreshingly concise. — Gregory Schrempp

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose. — Sinclair Lewis

Your birthday has come round again
so we send this card to say,
happy birthday nephew dear
lots of love are sent your way. — Susan Smith

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport. — Paul C. Nagel

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image. — Paul Di Filippo

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast. — Mehmet Oz

Everything I need now is here — Wayne W. Dyer

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. — Patch Adams

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal. — Sophie Swetchine

Turned back around before she could focus on him. It was at this moment that the black-robed Judge Christian Abernathy stepped into the courtroom. He was old, bespectacled, and frail, and his white hair, what was left of — David Baldacci

We need to emphasize that what the Spirit speaks he speaks through what has already been spoken, and that what the Spirit does he does through what has already been done. — John R.W. Stott

Oh, she does the detecting, I do the insulting.

--Consulting, Jane

Yes, that too! — Patrick Jane

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. — Garth Greenwell