#read

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#bread #connecting #daily #daily bread #dominated

I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#circle #entirely #everyone #friends #give

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#account #akin #between #continuity #data

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#beautiful #experience #gives #great #often

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#alone #another #anything #creates #form

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#child #get #incentive #kids #left

When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner? ↗

— Ed O'Neill

#come #dinner #dog #driveway #fine

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#book #books #dialogue #other #readers

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#die #good #look #make #middle

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#autobiography #celebrity #drug addict #his #means