NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors;… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are some who ask us to believe that if we want the best of times for ourselves, the fit and the… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The most sensitive frequencies are at the resonant frequencies of the auditory canal. In other words, the ear has shaped itself to… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance.… — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
Cooking is what makes us human. For example, Chimpanzees spend eight to ten hours trying to feed themselves, they are occupied by… — Jonathan Gold Copy Share Image
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because… — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are looking for us even if we're not looking for them. And by our ancestors I mean our bloodlines and… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that… — Kurt Richebacher Copy Share Image
Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is… — Hirohito Copy Share Image
Our ancestors had to eat whenever food was around. And we're actually still hardwired the same way. The big difference is we… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
