Nickys 60638 Quotes & Sayings

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes. — Dian Fossey

Even pure scientific discovery is an aggressive, penetrative act. It takes big equipment, and it literally changes the world afterward. Particle accelerators scar the land, and leave radioactive byproducts. Astronauts leave trash on the moon. There is always some proof that scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always. "The scientists want it that way. They have to stick their instruments in. They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist's job, and now we have whole societies that try to be scientific." He sighed, — Michael Crichton

We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives.
We watch, and they surprise us.
We watch, and they surpass us. — David Levithan

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing. — Bruce Dickinson

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not. — Jose Padilha

Christianity is a superhuman paradox whereby two opposite passions may blaze beside each other. — G.K. Chesterton

The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made. — Donella H. Meadows

Have you asked yourself why you protect me? Are you as messed up about all this as me? — Zoe Forward

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery — Mario Puzo

I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers. — Anita Shreve

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action. — Wallace D. Wattles

The Gracehoper was always jigging ajog, hoppy on akkant of his joyicity. — James Joyce