“The more skill it takes to accomplish a task, the more difficult it is to comprehend the knowledge needed to deal with… — Luigina Sgarro Copy Share Image
Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie. — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the… — George William Foote Copy Share Image
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account… — David Christian Copy Share Image
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from… — George Washington Copy Share Image