If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
I was shocked to my marrow the very first time I heard the Church is saying a man can marry a man.… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin… — Ascanio Sobrero Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments,… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him.… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that… — Frank Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I experiment with fashion, with my look, with everything. I’m a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is that I… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
