Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all,… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments. — Thomas Reed Copy Share Image
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at… — Heinrich Burkhardt Copy Share Image
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I do believe in this evolution of consciousness as the only thing which we can embark on, or in fact, willy-nilly, are… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
My kids download 10 games. They play them all for two minutes. They throw away the eight they don't like. Then they… — Mitch Lasky Copy Share Image
But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
