Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

Paul Krugman

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Paul Valery

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

Ray Comfort

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Richard Dawkins

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

Roy H. Williams

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

Sally Ride

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Steven Squyres

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Terry Pratchett

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

William Bell Riley

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.

Caroline Knapp

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

Mohsin Hamid

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

Max Stirner

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

Tariq Ramadan

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Edward de Bono

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

Ernest Thompson Seton

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

George Haven Putnam