Hotspur Glider Quotes & Sayings

Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by — Anthony Doerr

The people were taught that the record was inspired, and therefore true. They were not taught that it was true, and therefore inspired. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Wishes are an anesthetic to
be used by the unambitious, a
narcotic that dulls their awareness of
their own desperate condition — Jim Rohn

Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. — E.B. White

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science. — Jacob Bronowski

Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn't support the program, but tried to discourage participation in it. — Jack Anderson