“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
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
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers… — Robert Fulton 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
What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling.… — Gotye Copy Share Image
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery in life, the most precious treasure, is of awareness. Without it you are bound to be in darkness, full… — Anonymous 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
The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick… — Proclus Copy Share Image
God is discovered entirely through creation - the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds… — Benjamin F Sullivan Copy Share Image
"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
“You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable." "You enjoy being nurtured?" "Well, that isn’t all… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“How did I discover saccharin? Well, it was partly by accident and partly by study. I had worked a long time on… — Constantin Fahlberg Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“Building a museum case and filling it with types of mussels is one way of knowing mussels; but on the shore, a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“What a wonderful stimulant it would be for the beginner if his instructor, instead of amazing and dismaying him with the sublimity… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
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