#wil

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World. ↗

— William Petty

#ever #evil #many #naturally #old

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#gravity #how #like #mars #measure

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#crew #crew members #experiments #farther #fine

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#expedient #go #labor #man #thinking

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#become #begin #boy #child #childhood

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail. ↗

— Christian Dior

#pale #pink #prevail #tones #turquoise

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#around #better #change #horrible #like

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#any #clear #clear conscience #conscience #everything

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#believe #character #creating #difference #hope

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

#come #conservation #day #degradation #failure