Scientific Detachment Quotes

#1. What are we going to do?" asked the Professor.
"At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.

Julian Barnes

#3. The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

George Santayana

#4. As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

William Manchester

#5. If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.

Terry Pratchett

#6. No man of action has more completely attained the point of view of the scientific historian, who observes the movements of mankind with the same detachment as a bacteriologist observes bacilli under a microscope and yet with a sympathy that springs from his own common manhood. In

B.H. Liddell Hart

#7. Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenticity and worthiness is an absolute act of resistance. Choosing to live and love with our whole hearts is an act of defiance. You're going to confuse, piss off, and terrify lots of people - including yourself. One

Brene Brown

#8. The more I speak the more I make mistakes so. I speak less and listen more

Nicolas Kalinde

#9. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Asa Don Brown

#10. Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

Joe Perry

#11. Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption.

Katie J. Davis

#12. In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

Jimmy Webb

#13. And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.

Shelby Harris