Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.
It's always useful to be in big movies for one's career.
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.
Understanding different planets in their environments is still really important. So if these planets are dead lifeless worlds, it will still be useful for us.
Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool. '
The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims. . . but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.
Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively than during my life.
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him. . . . In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.
Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their useful idiots. . . . The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government and the Congress of the United States.
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.
Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.
