Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of… — August Kekule Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving.… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image