Siddhartha Self Discovery Quotes & Sayings

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals. — Fernando Pessoa

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life. — Sathya Sai Baba

Was I really afraid of hurting her feelings? Or was I afraid of her? — Bryce Loski

In the folklore of science, there is the often-told story of the moment of discovery: the quickening of the pulse, the spectral luminosity of ordinary facts, the overheated, standstill second when observations crystallize and fall together into patterns, like pieces of a kaleidoscope. The apple drops from the tree. The man jumps up from a bathtub; the slippery equation balances itself.
But there is another moment of discovery - its antithesis - that is rarely recorded: the discovery of failure. It is a moment that a scientist often encounters alone. A patient's CT scan shows a relapsed lymphoma. A cell once killed by a drug begins to grow back. A child returns to the NCI with a headache. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I very much feel like I'm part of the makeup of 'Once Upon a Time.' — Jamie Dornan

He met me at the airport; it was ten in the morning, Washington time, when I arrived, after having taken a plane that left Los Angeles International at 10:10 A.M. Los Angeles time. Who says time-reversal is hard to accomplish? — Robert Silverberg

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need. — Charles R. Swindoll

You know, I've often wondered. It's pretty clear what they were up to in Sodom, but what do you suppose the sin of Gomorrah was?' Carol asked. — Val McDermid

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live. — Malcolm Gladwell

that weddings are far more than marriage ceremonies; we know that they are occasions for family stock-taking and catharsis; that — Alexander McCall Smith