Homer Burton Adkins quotes

“Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.”
-- Homer Burton Adkins

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“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.”

Source : "Invest in Life Experiences" by Sean Kim, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”

Source : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

“The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.”

“He hit that one like an arrow”

“Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.”

“So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.”

“She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.”

“Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.”

“But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.”

Source : Billy Collins (2012). “Nine Horses”, p.18, Pan Macmillan