Freeman Dyson Quotes

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Freeman Dyson

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When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'

Joel A. Barker

SurvivalFirstAssumeUsOriginDid

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

John Corey Whaley

GreatMovingStoryObsessedSmith

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

Andreas Katsulas

YouNiceNextThingsGetJust

I can't think of a greater privilege than to speak out with legislation for people that can't often speak for themselves. And I know the ABLE Act will bring justice and peace of mind to millions of American families who deal with disabilities every day.

Ander Crenshaw

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As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.

John McEnroe

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All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

Robert Redford

LiveBlack And WhiteRedBlueThink

I didn't confess. I was interrogated. They acted like my answers were wrong. They told me I was wrong, that I didn't remember correctly, that I had to remember correctly. And if I didn't, I would never see my family.

Amanda Knox

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I've worked on a set before, know something about cameras, and done some editing.

Steve Carr

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Mind over mattress.

Stephen Covey

MindOverMattress

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

Trudi Canavan

LiteratureAlwaysFairyFilmBeen

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Robert Frost

WritingEndNeverStartedWhose

To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Ruth Reichl

CookingManMeWritingThinkDone

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