Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, I believe that there are few, even temple workers, who comprehend the full meaning and power of the temple… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The Archangel." I murmured. looking back over my shoulder at the ride, which had started its next ascent. "It means high-ranking angel."… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image