But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has… — Anne Fausto-Sterling Copy Share Image
“Next, I went in the shower to lather every inch of my body and stayed for so long inside, I walked away… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best… — Guillermo Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly!… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image