If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!
I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.
