#scholars

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. ↗

— William Penn

#extinguishes #many #mind #much #natural

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#artists #depends #human #human nature #many

I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public. ↗

— John Podesta

#aggressively #american #american public #been #both

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#constitute #exceptional #international #scholars #scientists

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. ↗

— Simon Raven

#another #books #boring #concluded #drudgery

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african #african american #allowed #american #before

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later. ↗

— David Remnick

#comes #difference #i #journalism #later