#arch

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. ↗

— James Rouse

#architectural #basic #belief #design #i

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#conviction #emotional #favour #finds #grounds

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#am #become #council #i #i am

All my knowledge comes from research. ↗

— Stan Sakai

#knowledge #research

My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#decision #desire #exit #feel #game

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#most #occupations #research #rewarding #scientific

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#elephant #games #had #i #kids

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#aim #am #completely #customary #disagree

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#biographer #friend #linda #shown #tripp

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#built #ever #experiment #first #first thing