Praemium Quotes & Sayings

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure. — Abraham Lincoln

Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory. — Asher Peres

Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives. — Erik Larson

Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him.
[Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum.
Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto.
Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes,
Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur;
Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.] — Plautus

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters. — H.L. Mencken

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper. — Cynthia Lewis

Contrary to what you may have heard or been taught, your ego isn't a bad thing. It means well. The ego wants to keep you safe, secure, protected and accepted. The problem comes in because it usually attempts to do this by keeping you in the same small, reclusive orbit that you've always gravitated toward. Life, on the other hand, is about change, growth and unfolding ever-greater aspects of the self. We all know the pain that is experienced when life decides to change even though you don't want it to. The harder you try to hold on to the comfort and safety of "what was" or "how it's always been done," the more pain you feel. — Charles Holt

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life. — John Knowles