The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon… — Kenneth O. Morgan Copy Share Image
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the… — Indu Sundaresan Copy Share Image
We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage.… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What's most striking is that the world as a whole has made remarkable progress against hunger, poverty and disease. I believe in… — David Beckmann Copy Share Image
I am presenting here today both revolution and anarchy, for which I am fortunately not the only one responsible. However, anarchy cannot… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been… — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable,… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Edgar Sawtelle is a boy without a voice, but his world, populated by the dogs his family breeds, is anything but silent.… — Dalia Sofer Copy Share Image
Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The first week or day that Obama was in office, he made it clear that peace in the Middle East would be… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious,… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image