Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a…

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of…

— Daniel Bell

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not…

— Susan Sontag

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will…

— Robert Dallek

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

— Sharon Kay Penman

It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of…

— William Finnegan

We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights;…

— Sun Tzu

But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out…

— Frank Bruni

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect…

— Emily Giffin

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma…

— Dean Karnazes

Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try…

— Rico Lebrun

There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps,…

— James M. Kouzes

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of…

— Lucy R. Lippard