Quotes of: Mary Keyword

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

John Henrik Clarke

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Johan Huizinga

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Alan Dundes

Mary: Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Mary: You can't do this! You cannot do this! John Preston: Tetragrammaton. There's nothing we can't do.

Equilibrium

George Banks: Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts.

Mary Poppins

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

Gary Shteyngart

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Roger McGough

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

Eric Betzig

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Erwin Chargaff

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

Irving Langmuir

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

John Polkinghorne

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Lisa Randall

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Martin Fleischmann

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

Martin Fleischmann

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

Mary Roach

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

Peter Agre

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

Robert B. Laughlin