The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created. — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative.… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image