Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. — Lionel Charles Robbins Copy Share Image
“I got interested in the idea that love is often used as a kind of blanket explanation for things. I mean, battered… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“Those who have a scientific outlook on human behaviour, moreover, find it impossible to label any action as ‘sin’; they realise that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way."… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. — Jorge Garcia Copy Share Image
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
“Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the myriad of other services resonate with the basic human urge to be social. The tools have changed,… — Alfred Hermida Copy Share Image
“It's a bitter truth but we humans are the only creature in this universe who not only fed up with things but… — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Literature before the Renaissance had frequently offered ideal patterns for living which were dominated by the ethos of the church, but after… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be. — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image