Ralph Waldo Emerson Literature, Poem
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Milton Friedman
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago. Heinrich Hertz
In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago.
I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. Frederick Sanger
I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. Jean-Paul Sartre
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
On graduating from the school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
On graduating from the school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.
[Before college] I was almost more interested in literature and history than in the exact sciences; I was equally good in all subjects including the classical languages. Arnold Sommerfeld
[Before college] I was almost more interested in literature and history than in the exact sciences; I was equally good in all subjects including the classical languages.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. Gertrude Stein
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature Garth Risk Hallberg
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. P.G. Wodehouse
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Every man's memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley
Every man's memory is his private literature.