American experience Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.”

— Anonymous

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

— Albert Einstein

Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can…

— Arthur William Galston

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream.…

— Malcolm D. Lee

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all…

— Barack Obama

I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.

— Bill Duke

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as…

— Jeb Bush

“Paranoid thinking seems to be a legacy of all revolutions, with purists searching for signs of heresy, and the American experience was no exception.”

— Ron Chernow

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

— K'naan

Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms of broadcasting…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

— Fred Tomaselli