The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest
astonishment. -- Celia Green
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Fortune Quote #2799
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to
the birth of a theory. -- Albert Einstein
the birth of a theory. -- Albert Einstein
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Fortune Quote #2798
"Medical statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is interesting
but what they conceal is vital."
but what they conceal is vital."
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Fortune Quote #2797
After 17 years of interacting with physicians, I have come to realize that
many of them are adherents of a religion they call Statistics... Like any
good religion, it involves vague mysteries capable of contradictory and
irrational interpretation. It has a priesthood and a class of mendicant
friars. And it provides Salvation: Proper invocation of the religious
dogmas of Statistics will result in publication in prestigious
journals. -- David S. Salsburg
many of them are adherents of a religion they call Statistics... Like any
good religion, it involves vague mysteries capable of contradictory and
irrational interpretation. It has a priesthood and a class of mendicant
friars. And it provides Salvation: Proper invocation of the religious
dogmas of Statistics will result in publication in prestigious
journals. -- David S. Salsburg
Friday, March 27, 2020
Fortune Quote #2796
It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give
them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. -- Frodo (The
Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien)
them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. -- Frodo (The
Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien)
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Fortune Quote #2795
It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden. And those
who have not swords can still die upon them. Would you have the folk of
Gondor gather you herbs only, when the Dark Lord gathers armies? --
Eowyn (The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien)
who have not swords can still die upon them. Would you have the folk of
Gondor gather you herbs only, when the Dark Lord gathers armies? --
Eowyn (The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien)
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Fortune Quote #2794
Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do
what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting
the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have
clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to
rule. -- Gandalf the White (The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien)
what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting
the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have
clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to
rule. -- Gandalf the White (The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien)
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Fortune Quote #2793
Why is it the ship beats the waves when the waves are so many and the ship
is one? The reason is that the ship has a purpose. -- Winston
Churchill
is one? The reason is that the ship has a purpose. -- Winston
Churchill
Monday, March 23, 2020
Fortune Quote #2792
Some of you doctors get queer ideas about what's in people's heads. You
think too much about these things. It isn't healthy. -- Winston
Churchill
think too much about these things. It isn't healthy. -- Winston
Churchill
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Fortune Quote #2791
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to
prophesy after the event has already taken place. -- Winston
Churchill
prophesy after the event has already taken place. -- Winston
Churchill
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Fortune Quote #2790
The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not
like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it. --
Winston Churchill
like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it. --
Winston Churchill
Friday, March 20, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Fortune Quote #2788
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to
apply them. -- Winston Churchill
apply them. -- Winston Churchill
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Fortune Quote #2787
The high belief in the perfection of man is appropriate in a man of the
cloth but not in a prime minister. -- Winston Churchill
cloth but not in a prime minister. -- Winston Churchill
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Fortune Quote #2786
The dignity of a Prime Minister, like a lady's virtue, is not susceptible
of partial diminuition. -- Winston Churchill
of partial diminuition. -- Winston Churchill
Monday, March 16, 2020
Fortune Quote #2785
The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.
-- Winston Churchill
-- Winston Churchill
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Fortune Quote #2784
It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread
as easily and as rapidly as folly. -- Winston Churchill
as easily and as rapidly as folly. -- Winston Churchill
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Fortune Quote #2783
[We] had far better go down telling the truth and acting in accordance
with the virtues of our position than gain a shabbily-bought office by easy
and fickle froth and chatter. -- Winston Churchill
with the virtues of our position than gain a shabbily-bought office by easy
and fickle froth and chatter. -- Winston Churchill
Friday, March 13, 2020
Fortune Quote #2782
Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments. It will not be preserved
by casting aside in dangerous times the panoply of warlike
strength. -- Winston Churchill
by casting aside in dangerous times the panoply of warlike
strength. -- Winston Churchill
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Fortune Quote #2781
It is very much better sometimes to have a panic feeling beforehand, and
then be quite calm when things happen, than to be extremely calm beforehand
and to get into a panic when things happen. -- Winston Churchill
then be quite calm when things happen, than to be extremely calm beforehand
and to get into a panic when things happen. -- Winston Churchill
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Fortune Quote #2780
It would be an unmeasured crime to prolong this war for one unnecessary
day. It would be an unmeasured and immeasurable blunder to make peace
before the vital objects are achieved. -- Winston Churchill
day. It would be an unmeasured and immeasurable blunder to make peace
before the vital objects are achieved. -- Winston Churchill
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Fortune Quote #2779
Who is the man vain enough to suppose that the long antagonisms of history
and of time can in all circumstances be adjusted and compacted by the
smooth and superficial conventions of politicians and ambitions? --
Winston Churchill
and of time can in all circumstances be adjusted and compacted by the
smooth and superficial conventions of politicians and ambitions? --
Winston Churchill
Monday, March 9, 2020
Fortune Quote #2778
A man should sleep sometime between lunch and dinner in order to be at his
best in the evening when he joins his wife and friends at dinner.
-- Winston Churchill
best in the evening when he joins his wife and friends at dinner.
-- Winston Churchill
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Fortune Quote #2777
I decline to be utterly impartial between the Fire Brigade and the
fire. -- Winston Churchill
fire. -- Winston Churchill
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Fortune Quote #2776
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for
armed and resolute wickedness. -- Winston Churchill
armed and resolute wickedness. -- Winston Churchill
Friday, March 6, 2020
Fortune Quote #2775
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we are young. The
young sow wild oats, the old grow sage. -- Winston Churchill
young sow wild oats, the old grow sage. -- Winston Churchill
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Fortune Quote #2774
No material progress, even though it takes shapes we cannot now conceive,
or however it may expand the faculties of man, can bring comfort to his
soul. -- Winston Churchill
or however it may expand the faculties of man, can bring comfort to his
soul. -- Winston Churchill
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Fortune Quote #2773
At Blenheim I took two very important decisions: to be born and marry. I
am content with the decision I took on both occasions. I have never had
cause to regret either. -- Winston Churchill
am content with the decision I took on both occasions. I have never had
cause to regret either. -- Winston Churchill
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Fortune Quote #2772
Is it the only lesson of history that mankind is unteachable? --
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Monday, March 2, 2020
Fortune Quote #2771
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in
peace, good will. -- Winston Churchill
peace, good will. -- Winston Churchill
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Fortune Quote #2770
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to
make this muddled world a better place to live in after we are
gone? -- Winston Churchill
make this muddled world a better place to live in after we are
gone? -- Winston Churchill
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