Andrew Solomon Quotes

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

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• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Science
  • Human
  • Monster

• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nature

• If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Future
  • Science
  • Crazy

• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Cheating

• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Power
  • Never
  • Mysterious

• Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Men
  • War
  • Nature

• Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Science
  • Popular

• 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

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Nature

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Live
  • Science

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Inspiration
  • Mysterious
  • Blessing

• I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Mysterious

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Science
  • Engineering

• A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Good
  • Science

• There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Game
  • Forever

• Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Stills