Juliana of the Netherlands quotes

“I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.”
-- Juliana of the Netherlands

#Science Quotes #People Quotes

“It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.”
-- Juliana of the Netherlands

#Sports Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.”
-- Juliana of the Netherlands

#Children Quotes #Princess Quotes #Want Quotes

“I don't understand computers. I don't even understand people who understand computers.”
-- Juliana of the Netherlands

#People Quotes #Computer Quotes

“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”

“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”

“Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.”

“Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.”

“The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.”

“There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.”

“Why don't you light that candle ?”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com