Brother Quote by Ayn Rand

When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.

— Steven Moffat

The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times.…

— Bertrand Russell

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm…

— Jean Craighead George

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

— Laura Anne Gilman

But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements,…

— Sargent Shriver

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for…

— Teilhard De Chardin

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

— Anonymous

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

— Larry Wilmore

Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to…

— Amy Sedaris

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin