| "Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." »Tom Robbins |
| "A new vision of development is emerging. development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition." »Boutros Boutros-Ghali |
| "Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research." »Marie Curie |
| "Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better." »John Updike |
| "If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths." »Alexis Carrel |
| "I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse." »Brian Eno |
| "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." »John W. Gardner |
| "Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses." »Unknown |
| "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." »Rich Kulawiec |
| "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." »Arthur C. Clarke |
| "research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." »Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun |
| "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." »Wernher von Braun |
| "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it" »Albert Einstein |
| "research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." »Marston Bates |
| "When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism but when you take it from many writers, it's research." »Wilson Mizner |
| "The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before." »Thorstein Veblen |
| "Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old." »Phillip Chesterfield |
| "Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." »Stephen Hawking |
| "America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want" »Sigmund Freud |
| "The secret of eternal youth is arrested development." »Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
| "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." »Bill Vaughan |
| "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." »Konrad Lorenz |
| "Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly." »Mao Zedong |
| "The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." »Oscar Wilde |
| "The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius |
| "A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible." »Thomas Hardy |
| "Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit." »M Scott Peck |
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