#arts

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#acute #arts #external #great #great talent

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. ↗

— Nicholas Negroponte

#developing #even #fish #kids #like

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#certainly #developed #dinosaurs #get #happens

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. ↗

— John Olver

#another #atmosphere #atmospheric #china #co2

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. ↗

— William Osler

#diseases #each #ends #life #old

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. ↗

— Robert Owen

#good #hearts #may #men #palaces

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops. ↗

— Amos Oz

#conflict #ends #hearts #minds #people

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#hearts #load #two

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#best #brings #come #day #delight

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#boring #experimental #gifted #good #involve