#nat

By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#already #banking #banking system #been #before

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#american #american culture #culture #feel #i

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#cognizant #day #dream #escape #many

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#analytic #fact #fanciful #found #imaginative

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#imagination #led #mob #nose #quietly

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#most #nature #particular #richest #some

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#exactly #initial #knew #laws #moment

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#knowing #life #living #nature #were

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#because #delights #does #nature #scientist