Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is… — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Copy Share Image
Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that… — Pierre Nicole Copy Share Image
Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter. — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
