The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain,… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills.… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered. — Amy Ephron Copy Share Image
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform… — Vladimir Vernadsky Copy Share Image
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
If neuroscientific research shows that those mechanisms only contain comparative information about colour differences, and have 'thrown away' more fine-grained information about… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
If you just read Leviticus on the surface, you may think it's just a bunch of grumpy irrelevant rules; but, it's actually… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
