#al

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. ↗

#conviction #ethics #personal #science #truth

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #city #cut #defined #ever

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#converted #culture #destroy #does #exist

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#behind #came #changed #families #father

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#anything #born #even #half #live

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.' ↗

— Mira Nair

#anything #arkansas #cut #film #film-maker

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. ↗

— Mira Nair

#life #more #peculiar #place #really

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#becomes #data #increasingly #information #intuition

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. ↗

— James Naismith

#basketball #derive #goals #i #i am

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' ↗