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Sea Quotes - Page 117

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

J. Michael BISHOP (2004). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.12, Harvard University Press

An excellent angler, and now with God.

'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 4

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 387-88, Carmina, IV, 2, 1, 1922.

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

"Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”