Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have… — Moby Copy Share Image
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Only few know what righteousness is. It is righteous to suffer for your own foolishness. When you sin, it is righteous to… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I believe I live in a black and white. I think things are like either black or white. I don't really believe… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment,… — Noel 'Razor' Smith Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example.… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Years ago, it wasn't easy to communicate, and it wasn't easy to spread information. We were limited to the few media outlets… — Yasmine Elmasri Copy Share Image
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there… — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
