The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.
Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.
Those who study a wide variety of things realize that they don't know everything whereas specialists think they do.
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.
I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.
It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!
I studied journalism at university, and I started a little bit of work on a woman's magazine called Minx that was aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds.
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.
Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space.
If it had only been for the immortality gene, humanity would have eventually managed to turn it back on. At one point in history, they would have embarked on a quest to become immortals, like the gods. But they couldn’t and the whole of humanity st...
Any connection with nature and most connections with technology are lost. There's a belief that nature is irrelevant and that anything can be solved using the current methods--now technology; previously magic or praying.
Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.
It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we can, in fact, prove it by doing. But it is totally illegitimate to claim that the discovery of this mechanism - natural ...
You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other natural phenomenon, and they follow the same natural laws. They are born, grown, have sons, and illegiti...
