In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g.,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole… — James Kern Feibleman Copy Share Image
I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to… — Werner Sollors Copy Share Image
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the… — Paul Chambers Copy Share Image
I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able… — Oral Roberts Copy Share Image
My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education,… — Ana Ivanovic Copy Share Image
I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“The intellectual is and only can be a militant, engaged as a singularity among others, embarked on the project of co-research aimed… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks that Jean-Luc is an intellectual. But he's very a sportive person too. He likes action. He likes people to be… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
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I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image