It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were built beside the Straits and were floated into position between the towers on rafts across a swirling tide. They were raised rather over a hundred feet up the towers by successive lifts with primitive hydraulic jacks. All this was not done without both apprehension and adventure; they were giants on the earth in those days.

J.E. Gordon

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Kate Smith

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Heywood Broun

Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.

Tia Mowry

I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.

Guy Laliberte

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Os Guinness

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

Ralph Steadman

And after all, what is a lie?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

James Montgomery