Quotes About Impact

expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de

The expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de la Vega.)

expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de la Vega.)

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely on that. In a sense we've made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many of us, too crowded, in an environment we've poisoned with our own-uh-byproducts. Now when this happens to a wild species, or to rats in a lab, the next generation turns out weaker and slower and more timid. This is a defense mechanism.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so."Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

The sensation of a baseball bat to the face was not any more pleasant when it came from an unexpected direction, without warning.

What you intend and what you do not intend have smaller import than you might suspect. The question is not what you shall do with life but what life shall do with you.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Grumbach adds, "John Money is a major figure, and what he says gets handed down and accepted as gospel by some

I believe in evil because I have touched it, and it has touched me.

Names did have a power, if they were used in the right way.

A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds.

It didn't matter whether a thing existed or not. What mattered was the trouble caused by those who believed in its existence.

Books are constantly changing the world. If you're a Christian, you have been changed by the Bible, by the word of God, or what was left of it when it was finally wrung through the hands of men. If you are a Muslim, look to the Koran; if a Communist, to Marx and Engels. Don't you see? This world is constantly being altered by books.

Books are not fixed objects: they transmit words and ideas. Their effect on each reader is unique. They put pictures in our minds. They take root. You

Most criminals are kind of dumb, which is why they're criminals. If they weren't criminals, they'd be doing something else to screw up people's lives, like running elections in Florida