Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
Aldous Huxley
Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.
Anonymous
history student
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay
, speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
Slovotsky's Law Number Thirty-One: Get scared right away; avoid the rush.
Joel Rosenberg
- The Warrior Lives
Slow and steady wins the race.
Robert Lloyd
- The Hare and the Tortoise
Small projects need much more help than great.
Dante
So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinit
Emile Wiechert
