Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated,… — Hank Nuwer Copy Share Image
“Then you are no longer afraid of death, Your Majesty?” the lady asked, awed at the queen’s adventures. “No, I am no… — Constance Jagodzinski Copy Share Image
In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic. — Dan Fogler Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre. — William Kircher Copy Share Image
Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“I never was the type of noblewoman to stay by the hearth while the men rode into battle anyway. As my father… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
“Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today” — Gillian Hovell Copy Share Image
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
