One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind,… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A timely and incisive look into the history, politics, and future of the Muslim Brotherhood by the foremost expert on Islamism in… — Vali Nasr Copy Share Image
While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all… — George Herbert 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
Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen. — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
There was a girl that bullied me years ago, and I was going through, you know, just the standard Instagram wormhole on… — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded;… — Grove Karl Gilbert Copy Share Image
