Accounts Quotes · Page 19

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

— Robert Breault

There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or…

— Evgeny Morozov

Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed…

— Charles Thom

The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such…

— Jen Lancaster

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural…

— Howard Mumford Jones

You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real…

— Rosalind Franklin

We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an…

— Sun Tzu

There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a…

— Michel de Montaigne

They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in…

— Raghad Hussein

Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at…

— Penelope Lively

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

— Anonymous

So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts…

— Cass Sunstein

When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan. It does…

— Robert B. Anderson

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable…

— Alfred North Whitehead

One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend,…

— James Clerk Maxwell

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with…

— Elon Musk

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They…

— Leon M. Lederman

When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

— Dan Ariely

it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because…

— Nadine Gordimer

I am open to [the notion of theistic revelation], but not enthusiastic about potential revelation from God. On the positive side, for…

— Antony Flew

Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'

— James Planche

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

— Anton Chekhov

The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with…

— Nigel Lawson

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting…

— Jacob Bronowski