I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Paul Bert Copy Share Image
In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
[Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of… — Nicholas Payton Copy Share Image
At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it… — Nicholas Blincoe Copy Share Image
How can you call yourself a cosmopolitan modern person if you don't know what hip-hop is? — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society. — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. — David Christian Copy Share Image
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly… — William Greider Copy Share Image
If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means… — Arleigh Burke Copy Share Image
For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice… — Kenneth Cloke Copy Share Image
Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image