After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Yet and still, Peter Norman took into account that the aboriginals were suffering just as much in Australia as Blacks in the… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were… — Daniel Quinn 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
“Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so… — Steve Hely Copy Share Image
In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We all use cash in our everyday life, but we don't use hundred-dollar bills. We're not using 500-euro notes. And yet these… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
