How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been operated upon to make them learn acceptable ways of participating as members of “the group.” — Joel H. Hildebrand In speec...
I have long held an admiration for the work of engineers, a sentiment that is shared by other members of my family. — Elizabeth II Opening statement in Speech (25 Jun 2013), for the 2013 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Science quotes on: | Admiration (61) | Engineer (136) | F...
But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board. —Birch Bayh 15 I think...
The day after this attack, Roosevelt stood before the members of the House of Representatives and Senate and gave his Pearl Harbor speech in order to convince them to agree to a declaration of war against the Japanese Empire. This is a mass grave of civilians who were killed in Nanking ...
Before reading this post, for all of you that have taken my part I and II classes, the school is bringing back my Gestalt class for a month, starting the first week in May. Here’s the link:https://bpsop.com/courses-1/ Every so often, either during a conversation with one of my...
Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead. from Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. Suggested by Kalavati The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. from Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. Suggested by Kalavat...
Dr. Livingstone: What we're looking for here for is, I think - and this is no more than an educated guess, I'd like to make that clear - is some multicellular life form with stripes, huge razor-sharp teeth, about eleven feet long, and of the genus felis horribilis - what we docto...
from Harvard University’s medical school in 1975 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. “Resurrection of the [1918 Flu] virus and publication of its structure open the gates of hell. Anybody, bad guys included, can now create it. Biological knowledge is far easier to acquire for Osama bin ...
Once Santa has visited and the gifts have been unwrapped — but the kids are still off from school for another 10 days or so — we like to jet out of town on a post-Christmas getaway. ... In place of that international beach trip, I booked a pretty last-minute Disney...
But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board. —Birch Bayh ...