One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Er lebte in mehreren Welten, und mehrere Welten leben in ihm.” — Hans-Christian Oeser Copy Share Image
Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose; ce que nous ignorons est immense. What we know is not much. What we… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the… — J. Edwin Orr Copy Share Image
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference… — William Wilson Morgan Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history. — Michael Holroyd Copy Share Image
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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