The true test of any scholar's work is not what his…

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or…

— Milton Friedman

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

— Milton Friedman

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be…

— Ben Goldacre

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon…

— Abraham Pais

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For…

— Francis Bacon

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

— Janis Joplin

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About…

— Grover Norquist

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there -…

— Carrie Ann Inaba

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

— Yogi Berra

I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are…

— Peter Yarrow

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five…

— Mary Antin

I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do…

— Barbra Streisand

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

— Michael Palin

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette