A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company. In response, Twitter wants BP to… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors. — Donald Sadoway Copy Share Image
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy]. — Edward Victor Appleton Copy Share Image
For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The Death of Money is an engrossing account of the massive stresses accumulating in the global financial system, especially since the 2008… — John H. Makin Copy Share Image
Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even… — Ralph Cavanagh Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy… — Solomon Copy Share Image
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name."… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law. — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to… — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that… — Michael Sweet Copy Share Image
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night. — Ludacris Copy Share Image
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls,… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image