#eve

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? ↗

— Humphry Davy

#attempt #cause #chemical #electrical #energy

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assembling #authority #could #done #happen

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people. ↗

— Doris Day

#animal #i #like #met #never

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. ↗

— Doris Day

#everywhere #find #garden #i #i do

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#believe #best #come #disregard #half

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. ↗

— Hugo Black

#founders #government #hoped #led #newspapers

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow. ↗

— Jack Black

#must #never #never underestimate #power #underestimate

Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids. ↗

— Jack Black

#bad #bad news #bears #because #ever

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#believe #brother #brothers #down #faith

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time. ↗

— Robin Day

#commerce #every #every time #going #lose