I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. - Douglas Adams But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. - Douglas Adams I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama. - Kate Adie And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who...

After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding. - Virginia C Andrews It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile. - L M Montgomery When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suff...

Tackling childhood obesity is key. - Diane Abbott If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. - Lance Armstrong Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. - Bob Filner The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible. - Shannon Miller The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk. - Tom Vilsack To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources. - Tom Vilsack

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! - Charles Dickens Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly. - Audrey Niffenegger I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. - Andrew Wiles

Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children. - Blaise Pascal Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. - Andy Goldsworthy They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood. - Karen White

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child? - Mitch Albom What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world. - Gilbert K Chesterton I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. - Jeffrey Eugenides The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other. - Louise Penny People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. - Bill Watterson These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one ...