“We thought we only wanted X, but having read this application, it seems important to expand our thinking to include Y.”
― The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job
― The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job
“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
“you threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face.”
― Malgudi Days
― Malgudi Days
“Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.”
― The Lost Symbol
― The Lost Symbol
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At teh end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever, " said the old lady. "But it turtles all the way down!”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
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