Quotes & Sayings About Robert Walton Frankenstein

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way. — Lewis Thomas

Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go. — Tony Blair

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time. — John Cale

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself. — L. Ron Hubbard

I can't," I said. "I threw my back out masturbating. — Chelsea Handler

Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe. — Ralph Merkle

Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical foundations, that morality cannot be legislated, but what they offer is not only legislated morality, but salvation by law. — Rousas John Rushdoony

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood. — Henrik Ibsen

I think a punt can be a big play in a game. If it's anything like a real game, then you realize that a Pat McAfee punt that downs someone inside the 2-yard line can really swing a game. I'm all for punting in video games. — Andrew Luck

Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals. — Adam D'Angelo