We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the… — Ann Scott Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes.… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new,… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and… — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Disney cartoons are all rated G. It's really funny. There are kids all over the world who still have complexes over Bambi's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug… — Kevin Sabet Copy Share Image
One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We are moving away from the old idea of leadership -- leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
The very technologies that were supposed to free up our time seem instead to be consuming it, tacking hours onto our already… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
How wonderful it is that we believe in modern revelation. I cannot get over the feeling that if revelation were needed anciently,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being.… — Peter Corning Copy Share Image
