#mode

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#congress #country #developed #different #divide

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#control #earth #eminently #foundation #land

On their own merits modest men are dumb. ↗

— George Colman

#men #merits #modest #own #their

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#modern-life #beauty

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#role-models #greed

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. ↗

— Xun Zi

#fluency #mind #moderate #quickness #rest

Most modern comedy is crap. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#crap #modern #most

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#go #guide #moderation #never #your

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. ↗

— James W. Black

#came #chance #college #establish #foundation