Grove Karl Gilbert quotes

“Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.”
-- Grove Karl Gilbert

Source : Grove Karl Gilbert (1896). “Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895”

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“The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.”
-- Grove Karl Gilbert

Source : Grove Karl Gilbert (1896). “Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895”

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“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

“As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.”

“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

“when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.”

Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

“I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.”

“Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.”