We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen VictoriaRead
There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be permitted. It is a disgrace to a civilized country.
Interpretation
The quote expresses Queen Victoria's strong opposition to vivisection, highlighting its moral and ethical implications.
Queen Victoria passionately condemns the practice of vivisection, which involves the painful experimentation on living animals. She argues that such acts are brutal and unworthy of a civilized society, emphasizing the need for compassion and ethical treatment of all living beings.
In practice
This quote can be used in an animal rights advocacy speech.
We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it.
The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.
The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.
Put glibly:_x000D_ _x000D_ In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it._x000D_ _x000D_ In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it._x000D_ _x000D_ Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state.
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