As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
So I learned that the people who make the most of the process of encountering reality, especially the painful obstacles, learn the… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The promise of learning is a delusion… Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02… — Patrick Michaels Copy Share Image
When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The Afghan government is much better informed, much more intrusive and ambitious than I had guessed. There are amazing craftsmen in Kabul… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you say the tax system benefits the rich, there are a lot of people who respond, "That can't be true, look… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Everywhere, the rate of change is so fast that large U.S. companies are in constant danger of disruption. Not from competition in… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Avataric periods are like the spring-tide of creation. They bring a new release of power, a new awakening of consciousness, a new… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
If you have loans, the first thing you want to do is say, "Okay, look I have a credit card, if I… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
The Goat of Mendez is the god of the witches. (Mendez is another spelling of Mendes, a city of ancient Egypt where… — Kerr Cuhulain Copy Share Image
My position is that the rate should align with the level of economic development. Because it is always about a balance, a… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image