You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part,… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
By mastering both aspects of our being we remember not only how to think, but what to think. What I'm clear about… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being. — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally)… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced. — Henry Wallich Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
