"Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of……" — Neil Turok
"Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose."
More Cloister Quotes
- In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant… — John B. Tabb
- Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life. — Abbe Pierre
- In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches… — Bayard Taylor
- Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual… — Charles Caleb Colton
- There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence… — James Wright
- I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from… — Emma Goldman
- Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;… — William Shakespeare
- I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he… — Richard J. Foster