Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess.… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
The decision to settle for mediocrity is a real killer. If you settle for just anything, youll never know what youre truly… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, Robert Rodriguez is the reason I was drawn to it. The fact that he even knew who I was… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We cannot enter the realm of the heart where one gender, representing half of the human race, is subordinated, suppressed, or forgotten.… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure,… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
You always, I think, debate with yourself about whether or not you made the right decision. And you have to then give… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life is a joke Even though you're fair to it Its still unfair You give your all.help those in need,sacrifice for others… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My family, they're not really that involved in what I do. Career-wise, they're very supportive. They're involved after the fact. I don't… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy's and her sister Lee Radziwill's families and… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of… — Paul Carus Copy Share Image
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
There is too much at stake to worry about our own egos. When my son was killed, I had to face the… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
And if something came along that didn't sound so good, it perhaps didn't always get out there as it should have. But… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“It is not a conclusive proof of a doctrine’s correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The fact is, when you talk to people, they know that something weird is going on, particularly people who are connected to… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image