John Charles Polanyi Quotes

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

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• To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Change
  • Color
  • Makeup

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Community

• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • People
  • Like
  • Irish

• We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Expectations

• I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

  

  Wale
  • Want
  • Political
  • Internet

• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
  • Truth
  • American

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Time
  • Army
  • Africa

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Team
  • Never
  • Left

• So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Horse

• England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Sea
  • Lucky
  • Island

• A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Technology
  • Story
  • Old

• If you try to imagine, as nearly as you can, what an amount of misery, pain and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if, on the earth as little as on the moon, the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Discipline

• I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.

  

  Gerald Jay Sussman
  • Mind
  • Smart
  • Puzzle

• Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

  

  Joyce Appleby
  • Knowledge
  • Contention
  • Discourses

• Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

  

  John Charles Polanyi
  • Mind
  • Knowledge
  • Popular