#very

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season. ↗

— William Dampier

#business #commonly #day #either #every

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#contribution #enormous #fact #own #preceding

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#field #mechanics #problem #quantum #quantum mechanics

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#around #break #community #development #first

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#conventional #i #i am #really #scientist

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#appalachian #doing #emotional #fiddler #folk

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#everybody #i #learning #mean #never

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#because #completely #different #everything #fascinating

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#christmas #disc #eventually #every #gets

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else. ↗