Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas… — John Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
“There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged. — Taisha Abelar Copy Share Image
We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
