John R. Platt quotes
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“It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.”
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“We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.”
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“Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.”
-- John R. PlattSource : "Future: A Recent History". Book by Lawrence R. Samuel, p. 92, June 2009.
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“Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run”
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“Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.”
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“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
Source : Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1925.
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Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”
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