You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at… — Heinrich Burkhardt Copy Share Image
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer)… — Tadeusz Kantor Copy Share Image
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences,… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt. — Marian Burros Copy Share Image
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
