DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags,… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel… — Dudley R. Herschbach Copy Share Image
“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin.… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
“What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
“The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In acting, the basic tool is observation. Whenever you see something, you store it in your head, and when you come across… — Rishi Kapoor Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that… — Irving Adler Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
