Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable;… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war.… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance. — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without… — Walther Bothe Copy Share Image
I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's no secret that the Democrat Party considers the American military to be the focus of evil in the modern world. So… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road)… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society,… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The process of socialization is nowhere near complete at age five or six, when modern children start spending up to half their… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Noise is the number one problem in modern offices. A big part of addressing this issue is making sure unwanted sound from… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life… — Drake Bell Copy Share Image
Bumble really sets the stage for an empowered and modern way to connect, which educated and forward-thinking groups of people have really… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
