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literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye
literature study subjects
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
literature projects
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off. Norman Ralph Augustine
literature needs easy
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
literature problem subtlety
One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety. Mo Yan
literature rational exertion
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? Mary Wollstonecraft
literature becoming caught
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician. Mark Haddon
literature bears pockets
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. Moliere
science opportunity thinking
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar. Richard P. Feynman
science measurement momentum
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.
science play theoretical-physics
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.
science thinking doubt
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
science tourists philosopher
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
science curiosity fields
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. Richard Whately
science people ego
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work. William S. Burroughs
science men bread
Man lives for science as well as bread. William James
science soul body
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body. William Gilbert
terrible
It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't. Jerry Jones
terrible being-true
Some things are too terrible to be true. Bob Dylan
terrible bores
Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore. Auberon Waugh
terrible expensive
It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me. Anna Nicole Smith
terrible sleepers
I am a terrible sleeper. Matt Smith
terrible really-great terrific
Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible. Laurie Simmons
terrible
There is a terrible indentation where the implant is misplaced. Gina Hern
terrible
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession. Pat Barker