Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could b

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Ronald Reagan

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

Snoop Dogg

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Thomas Carlyle

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Miguel de Cervantes

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

Jean Jacques Rousseau

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Michael J. Fox

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

John Bradshaw

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Victor Hugo

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

E. O. Wilson