For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person (on Margaret Thatcher)
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy* * some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.
I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.
Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.
I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.
This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.
was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.
