A Quote by Deborah Harkness

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

Deborah Harkness

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Dangerous Difficult Experiment Fleeting Judgement Opportunity

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Deborah Harkness
American - Novelist
Born: 1965

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

Hippocrates

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

Publilius Syrus

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

Catullus

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Pliny the Younger

Unfortunately, all life on earth - the only life we know - represents, for all its current variety, the results of a single experiment , for every earthly species evolved from the common ancestry of a single origin. We desperately need a repetition of the experiment (several would be better, but let's not be greedy!) in order to make a judgement. Mars represents our first real hope for a second experiment - the sine qua non - for any proper answer for the question of questions.

Stephen Jay Gould

Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that.

Freeman Dyson

Deliberando saepe perit occasio

Publilius Syrus

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.