Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake. — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
People will make worse financial decisions for them if they're choosing from a lot of options than if they're choosing from a… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Winter-related accidents and illnesses account for a large number of all senior health-related insurance claims during the winter months. But that doesn't… — Scott Perry Copy Share Image
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for. — Talulah Riley Copy Share Image
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer. — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image