Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere.… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has… — Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede Copy Share Image
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image