Quotes of: Leonardo-da-vinci Keyword

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.

Ani Difranco: The Complete Lyrics

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of , we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.

A History of Geometrical Methods

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

Headhunting In The Solomon Islands: Around The Coral Sea

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

The Hearing Trumpet

The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.

Harmonies Of The World

. However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.

Johannes Kepler New Astronomy

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversation I've had in a long time. Words aren't as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.

Journals

I certainly don’t have any interest in being on a dark veranda with any man except my husband, unlike some women do.” - Esther Norman

The Revenge of Esther Norman The Complete First Series

You are the belle of the ball tonight.” He said as he moved in closer. “How can you be so sinfully beautiful Mrs. Norman?

The Revenge of Esther Norman The Complete First Series

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

The Square Book

I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Wrap him up in floral wallpaper, wishing the envelopes I seal were his lips, leaving hickeys like stamps to show where he's been.

Sixteenth Notes: The Breaking of the Rose-Colored Glasses

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

My Inventions

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.

The Making of the Messiah

[was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.

Men of Mathematics

What if...what if...what if...I play the What If? game all the time. But it's rigged, is the thing. Impossible to win. Asking What If? can only lead to Maybe Things Could Have Been Different, via Was It My Fault?

Mosquitoland

The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

The Metropolis of Tomorrow

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Noa Noa