Quotes by Scottish/Scotland authors (page 27)

"The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?"

James C. Maxwell, Mathematician

"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me"

James C. Maxwell, Mathematician

"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"

James Hogg, Poet

"They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees"

James Lind, Scientist

"Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance"

James C. Maxwell, Mathematician

"We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress"

David McCallum, Actor

"In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe"

David McCallum, Actor

"The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects"

James Lind, Scientist

"It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges"

James Lind, Scientist

"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives"

David McCallum, Actor

"I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting"

David McCallum, Actor

"Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"I am a rank individualist"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude"

Angus Young, Musician

"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show"

Angus Young, Musician

"I just go where the guitar takes me"

Angus Young, Musician

"To make headway, improve your head"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"A shady business never yields a sunny life"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence"

David McCallum, Actor

"I've never outgrown my childhood"

David McCallum, Actor

"But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there"

David McCallum, Actor

"My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"Real riches are the riches possessed inside"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

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