Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
Don't ever in your life do a World Cup and the Olympic Games at the same time. This will make your life almost impossible.
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about... the world I live in.
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.
The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.
The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.
To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
The world needs to witness the best positive version of you, because being fake doesn't do the world any good.
Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.
In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.
What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
