#hem

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#became #chemical #chemicals #chemistry #enough

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. ↗

— William Falconer

#called #cask #close #compact #contained

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#deserves #drives #existence #into #large

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#closed #dignity #face #had #humiliate

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#culture #duty #i #impose #muslims

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#bigger #cross #go #horses #i

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. ↗

— David Brin

#civilization #could #culture #down #feed

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#exist #exterminated #i #israel #right

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science. ↗

— David Brin

#biology #far #find #honestly #i

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. ↗

— David Brin

#always #comes #demand #else #everyone