Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I… — Sammy Davis, Jr 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
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The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the,… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to the root… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I'm active on Facebook and Twitter professionally, then personally I have my own Facebook account, but nobody knows my name or anything.… — Glenda Bailey Copy Share Image
First if all, never play macho man in the market. Second, never overtrade. My major problem was not the number of points… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by… — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
In the long run all love is paid by love, Though undervalued by the hosts of earth; The great eternal Government above… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let… — Genghis Khan 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
Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is… — Owen Gingerich 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
We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international… — James McKeen Cattell Copy Share Image
Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen… — Jerry Della Femina Copy Share Image
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means,… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
When it's over it should be over. When a man is no longer at risk, he loses touch. I think these fellows… — Ralph J. Cordiner Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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