Quotes about "Science & Discovery"

The United States is still an enormous generator of innovation, from which other nations have long benefitted. But we now also have the opportunity to benefit from innovation taking place around the world. ”

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. ”

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. ”

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ”

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society. ”

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. ”

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us. ”

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. ”

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from. ”

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual? ”