The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.
The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.
The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.
Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion. ' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is lifted from its rack out into the morning. On another rack the oars hang ready to be greased and slipped into the locks. Then, awakened to the river and the feel of the oars, the oarsmen blend in fulfillment of the shell. The symphony is not of competition. It is the synchronous motion over water, the harmonic flexing of wood and muscle, where each piece of equipment and every oarsman is both essential to, and the limit of motion itself.
The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.
The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.