Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an… — David Irving Copy Share Image
What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process,… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
I will personally never ever get over the communal experience of theatrical cinema. I will never get over the scale of a… — Liza Johnson Copy Share Image
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When I do a T.V. show, I hear all these artists in their dressing rooms doing scales - I've never done it… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to… — Felix Dodds Copy Share Image
In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
