Pouring Quotes (3 quotes)
A body of work such as Pasteurâs is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
PensĂ©es dâun Biologiste (1939). Translated in The Substance of Man (1962), Chap. 6.
An old writer says that there are four sorts of readers: âSponges which attract all without distinguishing; Howre-glasses which receive and powre out as fast; Bagges which only retain the dregges of the spices and let the wine escape, and Sives which retaine the best onely.â A man wastes a great many years before he reaches the âsiveâ stage.
Address for the Dedication of the New Building of the Boston Medical Library (12 Jan 1901). Printed as 'Books and Men', The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (17 Jan 1901), 144, No. 3, 60. [Presumably âHowre-glassesâ refers to Hour-glasses. -Webmaster]
My eureka moment was in the dead of night, the early hours of the morning, on a cold, cold night, and my feet were so cold, they were aching. But when the result poured out of the charts, you just forget all that. You realize instantly how significant this isâwhat it is youâve really landed onâand itâs great!
[About her discovery of the first pulsar radio signals.]
[About her discovery of the first pulsar radio signals.]
From BBC TV program, Journeys in Time and Space: Invisible Universe (28 Feb 2001).