Richard Hughes Quotes (11 Quotes)



    Science, being human enquiry, can hear no answer except an answer couched somehow in human tones. Primitive man stood in the mountains and shouted against a cliff the echo brought back his own voice, and he believed in a disembodied spirit. The scientist of today stands counting out loud in the face of the unknown. Numbers come back to him - and he believes in the Great Mathematician.

    I got a lovely rhythm from him which is the key to the horse and he really picked up at the crossing. Once I got that rail, I knew he wouldn't get beat.

    Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.

    All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.


    I was particularly happy that the court clarified that the 1997 compact really is dead and gone, although it remains in the published version of the New Mexico statutes.

    Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

    Whatever the textbooks say, investors like dividends - with very good reason. If you had put 1 into equities in 1900, by the end of 2005 you would have had 143 in capital gain. But if you had reinvested the dividends paid out over that time you would have had 18,200.

    He settled when I jumped out, that was the plan to sit in behind and get him relaxed. But with the pace they were going, I just let him stride on and he relaxed going up there. Slowly but surely he's learned to relax and he's going the right way now.

    Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

    The trouble with success is that a man may be perfectly sound on the short story but not very good about the atomic bomb. They always ask your opinion about those things.


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