Quotes of: Kant Keyword

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Clifford Geertz

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

Clifford Geertz

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Clifford Geertz

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

James Henry Breasted

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

James Henry Breasted

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

James Cronin

I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.

Eric Betzig

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Eric Allin Cornell

The information is in the people, not in your head.

Edward T. Hall

I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.

Bill Wyman

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

Geoffrey West

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

Howard Carter

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

Henry James Sumner Maine

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

David Deutsch

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

David Douglass

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

David Gross

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

James Hansen

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

James Hansen

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Aldous Huxley