About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
“Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel metamorphosed into… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
“As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
