Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons… — John Donne Copy Share Image
