Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention. — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity. — Edward Leigh Copy Share Image
It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true. — Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I want to build a wired ocean that helps us take back the seas from poachers and illegal fishers. To do this,… — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But I think there is a space for a second league, which is UTS, that is more modern, and is targeting a… — Patrick Mouratoglou Copy Share Image
