Rumphius Foundation Quotes

#1. Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York.

William Shakespeare

#2. In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck.

Lubos Motl

#3. What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Caleb Ricketts

#4. We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

Democritus

#5. We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.

Mohammed Ali Bapir

#6. Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

Mark Twain

#7. I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us

Phonte

#8. It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.

Colleen Atwood

#9. I didn't learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of 'em.

Tom Watson