Negative Real Interest

Famous quotes containing the words negative, real and/or interest:

    The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short- cut answer.
    Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

    Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)

    I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)