The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse… — Peter Cooper Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The studies I've seen about readability and legibility tend to focus on a specific set of metrics: size, not just the point… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared… — Michael Tierra Copy Share Image
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
