There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.
The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. . . . Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.
Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.
I remember thinking all TV was black and white, but that was because we had a really old, broken TV. And then I went to a friend's house and I was like, woah, your TV is like, crazy! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That was my first show.
When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.