#idea

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#biological #developed #fully #himself #human

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#although #choice #comfortable #culture #familiar

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#experience #gained #given #how #ideas

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#always #away #bright #changes #cheerful

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#biggest lesson #could #government #had #i

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#badly #emergence #emergency #enough #ideas

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#alive #another #city #creation #death

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#come #feel #i #i can #i feel

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#ended #idea #minimalism #real #real idea

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#basis #continuation #development #drawings #earth