H. Bentley Glass Quotes

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

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• Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Science
  • Curiosity
  • Testing

• I have been surfing since I was six years old.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Years
  • Old
  • Surfing

• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • You
  • Reason
  • Years

• My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Race
  • Autobiography

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • You
  • Years
  • Process

• I'm very interested in science.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Science
  • Very
  • Interested

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Science
  • Wine
  • Season

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Years
  • Year
  • Last

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • People
  • Present
  • Meeting

• Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

  

  Craig Venter
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Past

• Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Design
  • Responsible
  • Radical

• You will ask how I felt about spending so much time with people who supported the Hitler regime. I will tell you that, since I had absolutely no choice in the matter, I no longer dared to think about it. To be in Germany at that time, pretending to be an Aryan, meant that you automatically socialized with Nazis. To me, they were all Nazis, whether they belonged to the party or not. For me to have made distinctions at that time—to say Hilde was a “good” Nazi and the registrar was a “bad” Nazi—would have been silly and dangerous, because the good ones could turn you in as easily and capriciously as the bad ones could save your life.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Hitler
  • Supported
  • No Choice

• Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

  

  Emanuel Swedenborg
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• Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Together

• The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

  

  H. Bentley Glass
  • Science
  • Present
  • Years