For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the… — Ann Scott Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can… — Martinus Beijerinck Copy Share Image
There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him.… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes.… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to… — James Vance Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
How wonderful it is that we believe in modern revelation. I cannot get over the feeling that if revelation were needed anciently,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The very technologies that were supposed to free up our time seem instead to be consuming it, tacking hours onto our already… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability.… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is… — Leslie Orgel Copy Share Image
Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
You may be going through a trial so overwhelming that it's borderline unbearable. You want to see the end of the tunnel.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
