Quotes
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Law of nature
‘If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you’ve just proven a natural law.‘― Grace Hopper
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True understanding
‘I never am really satisfied that I understand anything, because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me.‘― Ada Lovelace
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Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe
‘We have peered into a new world, and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way.‘― Vera Rubin
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Freedom of speech
‘I do not agree with the extremists of either the left or the right, but I think they should be allowed to speak and to publish, both because they themselves have, and ought to have, rights, and once their rights are gone, the rights of the rest of us are hardly safe.‘― Jane Jacobs
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Victory to stupidity
‘The tension between nature and humans’ interaction with it is an enormous battle between man’s intelligence and his stupidity. And I am not at all sure that stupidity isn’t going to win out in the long run.‘― Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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Girl power
‘If one girl with an education can change the world, just imagine what 130 million can do.‘― Malala Yousafzai
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Good Reading
‘Wherever you go you will have the choice of good or bad reading, and as reading has such a lasting effect on the mind, you should try to read only good things.‘― Juliette Gordon Low
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