Quotes of: Leonardo-da-vinci Keyword

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Crux

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

On Certainty

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

On Certainty

And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?

Chris Tomlin: And If Our God Is for Us...

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Culture and Value

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Culture and Value

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Culture and Value

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Culture and Value

Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

Do The Birds Still Sing In Hell?

Then his beautiful lips touched hers. A fluttering of wings, a cry of angels, a single beat of two hearts.

Enchained

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Earth

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

Earth

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World

The true miracle is that abstract considerations of logic lead to a unique theory that predicts and describes a vast universe full of the amazing variety that we see.

The Grand Design

was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.

A History Of Mathematical Statistics From 1750 To 1930

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

Brother to Dragons

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.

Brother to Dragons

Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.

British Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design

So tall and lithe in his suede and leather outfit. So utterly gorgeous it almost ached to look at him.

Blade Heart

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Bob Marley - Legend

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

Black Holes and Baby Universes