I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.
Thor: [comes to Selvig for help] This may be dangerous... Erik Selvig: I would be disappointed if it wasn't.
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.
I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.
Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
Tony Stark: [as Thor leaves a Bifrost mark] That man has no respect for lawns.
