Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture…

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist…

— Henry Taube

Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got…

— Mick Jones

Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an intellectual pursuit.

— Gza

Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

— Woody Allen

Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's…

— Alan Lightman

“also learned that the ones who invented the notion that work is ennobling were the same ones who drank and ate all night long…

— Anonymous

Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own…

— Washington Allston

“Most of my stories are not nice ones, their heroic aspects dimmed by the fact that the hand which struck me was my own.…

— David Carr

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The requirement by some Christians that others be Biblically 'ennobling' (lovingly building-them-up) by showing resilience & self-restraint in the face of their sin is…

— Gary Patton

“The requirement by some Christians that others be Biblically 'ennobling' (lovingly building-them-up) by showing resilience & self-restraint in the face of their sin, and…

— Gary Patton

To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is…

— Mervyn King

Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of…

— David Ramsey

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to…

— Victor J. Stenger

“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair…

— Pierre Boulle