The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image