Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients. . . it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking. . . Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. . . no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it. . . it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.
I think Oppenheimer Analysis had the most accessible material for commercial success. Martin Dupont, Deux, Linear Movement, Moderne and Stereo held a lot of potential as well.
The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.
I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?