The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The most abundant hue in nature, the human eye sees more green than any other color in the spectrumas it has throughout… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of lessons that people can take from me, that they can start to apply because I don't think… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical,… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows… — Michael Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does. — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world. — Sjon Copy Share Image
The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture… — Tan Chorh Chuan Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric… — David Bellamy Copy Share Image
The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image