In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary… — Carlo Maria Giulini Copy Share Image
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but… — William Golding Copy Share Image
A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime… — John Calvin 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
To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself)… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything... Because I know… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called,… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
An orgasm is not what I want and I know it. What I want, need, is so much more than that. It's… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks 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
Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
