Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say. — May Agnes Fleming Copy Share Image
The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad. — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art,… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid… — Philip Khuri Hitti Copy Share Image
The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts… — Ralph Neas Copy Share Image
We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image