The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery. — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind's creativity. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in… — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity.… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to… — June Millington Copy Share Image
You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side… — Arca Copy Share Image
America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world.… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image