One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In… — David Saint-Jacques Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws.… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
There's an increase in serious weight disorders from cellphone use. And people who don't sleep have serious other consequences for their health… — Devra Davis Copy Share Image
The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be… — Khalid ibn al-Walid Copy Share Image
A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous,… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I… — Concha Buika Copy Share Image
“What a person has is of no consequence, whether much or little, when it comes to the deep satisfaction of the soul.… — Kelly Minter Copy Share Image
When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Our daily routines influence the lives of people and animals halfway across the world, and some personal gestures can unexpectedly set the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
Its not possible to do the wrong thing. You do what you do and you experience the consequences of what you do.… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image