Quotes of: Leonardo-da-vinci Keyword

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Arthur Erickson

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Arthur Erickson

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Arthur Erickson

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Arthur Erickson

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

Arthur Erickson

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

Arthur Erickson

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

Arthur Erickson

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

Arthur Erickson

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

Albert Einstein

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

Albert Einstein

Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.

Albert Einstein

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Albert Einstein

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Albert Einstein

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Albert Einstein

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Albert Einstein

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Albert Einstein