When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

John Lowenstein

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Christopher Earle

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Francis H. Bradley

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Doug Horton

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

Alastair Campbell

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Rita Mae Brown

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James