Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a… — Paul Outerbridge 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
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm finally learning how to use Twitter, and Tweetbot has been a huge part of that. The interface is… — Evan Spiegel Copy Share Image
Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is… — Dacia Maraini 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
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor. — Fran Lebowitz 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 arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two… — John Adams Copy Share Image