Quotes of: North Keyword

I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.

Janna Levin

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY...SO LAUGH INSANELY, KISS SOFTLY, AND MAKE LOVE PASSIONATELY.....

North Philly's Finest Part 1

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred

Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.

Arthur Cayley

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

Burton Richter

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

Paulo Freire

There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion.

Mel Watt

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more.

Noam Chomsky

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

Ralph Merkle

If you are designing cryptosystems, you've got to think about long-term applications. You've got to try to figure out how to build something that is secure against technology in the next century that you cannot even imagine.

Whitfield Diffie

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Michael E. Mann

As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to join him in the oil-field business in Oklahoma, but I wanted to be a scientist.

Paul McEuen

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

Frederick Reines

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it.

John Holdren

I'm from North Carolina, and I stand here humbled, honored, and proud to place in nomination for the office of vice-president of the United States of America, my friend and my senator from the great state of North Carolina: John Edwards.

Harvey Gantt