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David Cronenberg: When you're in...

David Cronenberg: When you're in...

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you...

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Barbra Streisand: What does it...

Barbra Streisand: What does it...

What does it mean when people applaud? . . . Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of...

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Robert Frost: How many apples...

Robert Frost: How many apples...

How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint? Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over...

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Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

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Thomas Henry Huxley: All truth, in...

Thomas Henry Huxley: All truth, in...

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Source: On the Study of...

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Lewis Thomas: Music is the...

Lewis Thomas: Music is the...

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is...

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Rachel Carson: Those who contemplate...

Rachel Carson: Those who contemplate...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life...

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Marie Curie: There are sadistic...

Marie Curie: There are sadistic...

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down error instead of establishing the...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: I am really...

Ellen Swallow Richards: I am really...

I am really astonished at the amount of work we do. The only trouble here, they wont [sic] let us study enough. I...

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Joseph Priestley: In completing one...

Joseph Priestley: In completing one...

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea...

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Andrew Wyeth: When you show...

Andrew Wyeth: When you show...

When you show it to someone, if they like it, you're stopped, and if they dislike it you're stopped either...

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Robert Henri: Good composition is...

Robert Henri: Good composition is...

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none...

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Desmond Morris: This unusual and...

Desmond Morris: This unusual and...

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal...

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Isaac Newton: A man may...

Isaac Newton: A man may...

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false,...

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John Muir: The power of...

John Muir: The power of...

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Sean O'Casey: What time has...

Sean O'Casey: What time has...

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The...

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Siegfried Sassoon: His most rational...

Siegfried Sassoon: His most rational...

His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't...

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Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Source: The...

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Daniel Defoe: Vice came in...

Daniel Defoe: Vice came in...

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

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J B S Haldane: While I do...

J B S Haldane: While I do...

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that...

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