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Freda Adler: The type of...

Freda Adler: The type of...

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its...

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Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: He who knows...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: He who knows...

He who knows nothing, loves nothing.
He who can do nothing understands nothing.
He who understands nothing is...

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Peter Mere Latham: How is it...

Peter Mere Latham: How is it...

How is it that in medicine Truth is thus measured out to us in fragments, and we are never put in trust of it as a...

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Claude Bernard: Science does not...

Claude Bernard: Science does not...

Science does not permit exceptions.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Less is more....

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Less is more....

Less is more.

Source: New York Herald Tribune, 1959.
-- Ludwig Mies van der...

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: A chair is...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: A chair is...

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is...

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Philip Johnson: Architects are pretty...

Philip Johnson: Architects are pretty...

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: My ideas have...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: My ideas have...

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Tombs are the...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Tombs are the...

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with...

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Neil Armstrong: Science has not...

Neil Armstrong: Science has not...

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next...

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Tycho Brahe: Now it is...

Tycho Brahe: Now it is...

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the...

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Maria Mitchell: People have to...

Maria Mitchell: People have to...

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can...

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: I've spent more...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: I've spent more...

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: It is because...

Thomas Henry Huxley: It is because...

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: It is the...

Thomas Henry Huxley: It is the...

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

Source: Evidence as to...

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Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Linnea.. . . A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space -- from Linnaeus...

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George Washington Carver: The beating on...

George Washington Carver: The beating on...

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before...

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Andy Warhol: I'm a deeply...

Andy Warhol: I'm a deeply...

I'm a deeply superficial person.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone,...

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Emily Carr: It is wonderful...

Emily Carr: It is wonderful...

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something...

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