“ Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, befo… Margaret Kennedy
“ It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes. Lawrence Booth
“ At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless sk… Carl Sagan
“ If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an ‘oomph,’ this theory could explain a… Richard P. Feynman
“ Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to re… Stephen Jay Gould
“ I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. Elizabeth Peters
“ Such is a communityof inviolable immunity, protectedfrom tampering or harpooningmutiny. Every better thinker’s impulse to shrink us (at the shoreline from our lifeblood’s deep pulse) uses disparaging… Kristen Henderson
