It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk,… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch. — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other, And they are to branch boundlessly out of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. — James Otis Copy Share Image
My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting… — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the… — Philip M. Breedlove Copy Share Image
In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image