#he

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#between #civilized #civilized man #found #higher

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#billionaire #brains #brainy #broker #cries

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#better #defined #hypothesis #next #open

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#attention #blots #books #covered #draws

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#astonishment #egypt #exercised #fascination #hesitation

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#because #careless #children #days #habitual

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #cannot #desire #i #i am

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#assembled #associated #because #church #dear

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#lands #longer #may #moon #nothing

I mean, it's not important what kind of pants you wear; it's how you wear them. ↗

— Ronnie Lott

#i #important #kind #mean #pants