By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
How shall we define occultism? The word is derived from the Latin occultus, hidden; so that it is the study of the… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Music being “good or bad” is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
My goodness, what we want in a leader is someone with judgment, not someone who is so reckless as to stand on… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another factor is the post-9/11 security mentality, which views sunlight as toxic and imagines that somehow bin Laden is dependent upon our… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Today is a day for celebration, no matter what your religion or your culture. Learn to celebrate today: celebrate the fact that… — Margaret Neylon Copy Share Image
Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because. No matter how pathetic the reason, its enough to start war. War will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I love hip-hop. I'm big into Jay-Z, Kanye, Little Wayne. Those are everyone's favorites, I know. I just like the fact that… — Nate Burleson Copy Share Image
One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange… — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
I am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as… — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of… — Cornell William Brooks Copy Share Image
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike.… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates… — Enoch Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can… — Julius Shulman Copy Share Image
