The Light Of Day Graham Swift Quotes & Sayings

You can only go into science because you're interested in it. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Might call it a great passion. When the true name of what we're dealing with is greed, or lust. We all have the special talent of believing in a falsehood, and believing it devoutly, when we want it to be true. — Barbara Kingsolver

My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time. — Jonathan Franzen

I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from. — Jason Mraz

It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound ... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors. — David M. Raup

Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people. — Deb Baker

His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as he fought battles, but, by the grace of the gods, the opposing generals' blunders were sometimes worse. — Aubrey Menen