My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.
England is an aquarium, not a nation.
Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music. . music one can live in like a house.
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.
There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.
When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
Knowing how people will use something is essential
