Famous quotes containing the words wood, science and/or building:
“If the axe is not sharp, it doesn’t matter how hard the wood is.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)