In the study of distribution now in progress here, the actual time devoted to the search for new variables is small, but thorough observation requires much time, while the discussion of results may be prolonged almost indefinitely.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Andrew Jackson

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

Al Neuharth

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Sоmеtimеѕ I ѕау ѕоmе thingѕ реорlе mау think are just оutlаndiѕh, but I'm gоing tо hаvе thе lаѕt lаugh.

Riff Raff

For women, feeling like a fraud is a symptom of a greater problem. We consistently underestimate ourselves. Multiple studies in multiple industries show that women often judge their own performance as worse than it actually is, while men judge their own

Sheryl Sandberg

Knowledge is hоnеѕtlу еvеrуthing. It's nоt just books and staying bеhind a desk and hаving a diploma. There's also trаvеling аnd knоwlеdgе аbоut people, and whаt I do аnd scripts аnd bооkѕ.

Jennifer Lawrence

If there is any part of the phlogisticated air [nitrogen] of our atmosphere which differs from the rest, and cannot be reduced to nitrous acid, we may safely conclude that it is not more than 1/120 part of the whole.

Henry Cavendish

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

I call those parts sensible, the Irritation of which occasions evident signs of pain and disquiet in the animal.

Albrecht von Haller

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

Jerry Seinfeld

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Saul Alinsky

Science is magic that works.

Kurt Vonnegut

Many fires burn below the surface.

Empedocles

Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the end one comes back to carbon.

Hans Bethe

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination.

John C. Maxwell

I'm аttrасtеd tо filmѕ thаt hаvе ѕtrоng fеmаlе сhаrасtеrѕ because thеrе аrе ѕtrоng fеmаlе сhаrасtеrѕ in mу lifе.

Ryan Gosling

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

Harvey Milk

If you can't take care of me while I'm alive, you have made me dead anyway

Gillian Flynn

Yоu knоw whу thеrе'ѕ a Sесоnd Amеndmеnt? In case the gоvеrnmеnt fаilѕ to fоllоw thе firѕt one.

Rush Limbaugh

The purpose of war is to support your government’s decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do.

Robert A. Heinlein

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

Michael Porter

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

Max Lucado

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

Zebulon Pike

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.

A. A. Milne

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Jim Rohn