Mixed Parentage

Famous quotes containing the words mixed and/or parentage:

    It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecution of science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)