Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation.

The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.

John Dewey, John Dewey and Ameri

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

James Madison

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Berenice Abbott

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Lester B. Pearson

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Jacques Derrida

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

Remy de Gourmont

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

Charles Dickens

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

John Buchan

When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science.To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom.

Toba Beta

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Jorge Luis Borges

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Theodore Roosevelt