I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry… — Eunice Tietjens Copy Share Image
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually,… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
In the West, we got the message that it's not cool to wear ivory. It's not cool to utilize products from these… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by… — James Trefil Copy Share Image
Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the… — Homer Copy Share Image
I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
![“Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible…” quote by Pliny the Elder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f7/pliny-the-elder-2838_air_contact-with-menstrual-blood-turns-new-w_1631587.jpg)
