#elves

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#class #class clown #clown #fun #good

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#constitute #exceptional #international #scholars #scientists

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#must #often #ourselves #really #science

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#care #i #i think #other #ourselves

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#conceptual #course #especially #familiarize #good

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. ↗

— Colin Powell

#people #play #seriously #surround #surround yourself

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

God help those who do not help themselves. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#god help #help #themselves #those #who