I should like you to remember two or three fixed principles which shine through all the history of mankind. The first is that mere bigness is not greatness. There is no dignity, no nobleness, in mere bulk. The true greatness of a nation depends upon the character of its ethical ideal and the energy with which it pursues it. I count it a peculiar good fortune for the American nation that it was conceived in liberty and intelligence and swaddled in order and justice, and that its early years were watched over by men who saw in such an organization the best hopes of the human race. But the baptism of the fathers does not guarantee the consecration of their children; and the republic can be kept true to its ideals only by the devoted efforts of each succeeding generation. Thus is it the privilege of the quiet scholar, who sees and speaks the truth, to shape from his study the policy of nations and the course of history.
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This was just a great game - two quality teams who battled all night. I hope they don't do this every time or I'll have a heart attack.
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Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.
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By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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John 4:5:
So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
(NIV)
And in doing so, He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
(AMP)
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
(KJV)
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.
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Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy's dignity? Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt? And who has not thought that the impersonal world Deserves no better than to be destroyed By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?
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Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.
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The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.
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John 4:12:
'Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?'
(NIV)
Are You greater than and superior to our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?
(AMP)
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
(KJV)
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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Exodus 1:5:
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
(NIV)
All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
(AMP)
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
(KJV)
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O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
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Look to the past for guidance into the future.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
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Romans 11:26:
And in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: 'The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.'
(NIV)
And so all Israel will be saved. As it is written, The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will banish ungodliness from Jacob. [Isa. 59:20, 21.](AMP)
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
(KJV)
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
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When confronted with two evils; Choose the Blonde
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