It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some… — John Pople Copy Share Image
The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change. — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism. — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey… — Karle Wilson Baker Copy Share Image
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
