Mulls Quotes

#1. A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#2. A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"

Milton Berle

#3. I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

George Carlin

#4. We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

Harry Markowitz

#5. I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

John Gielgud

#6. You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Emily, I might be hallucinating," she said calmly, as she turned to me. "Because I could almost swear that was Frank Porter.

Morgan Matson

#9. Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

Robert C. Solomon