Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant,… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
“Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.” — Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone Copy Share Image
“Kids are not born sinners, they are born innocent and will become whatever you project to them. Stop projecting sin to them.” — Chidi Ejeagba Copy Share Image
as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world.… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
“It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity,… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing… — Susannah Constantine Copy Share Image
Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its… — Hans Ree Copy Share Image
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
