In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take… — Ariana Richards Copy Share Image
It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self.… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts.… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with… — David Bach Copy Share Image
By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour — Hugh Massingberd Copy Share Image
Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure… — Andrew Natsios Copy Share Image
[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone… — Gary Pruitt Copy Share Image
Many people, if they were to treat other people as they treat their spouses, would soon have not a friend in the… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and… — Wayne Knight Copy Share Image
The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
At the finish of the effect look at the audience: if they have gone white in the face, froth at the mouth… — Tony Corinda Copy Share Image