Ghetto Quote by Diane Ackerman

“A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The Germans had…

— Sergio Troncoso

“The nation’s forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United States had…

— Marybeth Lorbiecki

I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets?…

— Richard Rodriguez

The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year 2060, according…

— Joseph L. Bast

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in…

— John Hodgman

“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the…

— John F. Kennedy

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale…

— Carol P. Christ

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but…

— Frederick W. Smith

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast…

— John F. Kennedy

“The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured…

— Wikipedia

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and…

— David McCandless

I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that…

— Priyamvada Natarajan