#ends

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#days #dizzying #experimental #feel #female

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #because #big #dignity #erased

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#completely #demonstrate #depend #depends #science

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#doing #establishment #into #modes #move

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings. ↗

— David Levithan

#friendship #friendship

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods. ↗

— Whitley Strieber

#associated #completion #egyptian #ends #every

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. ↗

— William Godwin

#argument #because #coercion #could #doubt

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceive #deceived #friends #than #them

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#arose #change #friends #higher #higher level

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#insignificant #nothing #point #point of view #view