“The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. ”
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Charles Schwab 1
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Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 20, A Game of Beads, The wonder of quantum superposition, p. 182
“If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."”
McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203, 232 (1948).
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“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
"The Making of a Scientist," p. 14 <!-- Feynman used variants of this bird story repeatedly: (1) "What is Science?", presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, in New York City (1966) published in The Physics Teacher, volume 7, issue 6 (1969), p. 313-320. (2) Interview for the BBC TV Horizon program "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981), published in Christopher Sykes, No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (1994), p. 27. -->
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
Context: You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You'll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird. … I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Source: Book 1, Chapter 1 “What the Sea God Discarded” (p. 165), Corum, The Queen of the Swords (1971)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”
“Our hero came from Nowhere — he wasn't going Anywhere and he got kicked off Somewhere.”
The High Sign (1921, co-written with Edward F. Cline)