#them

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#assign #beyond #continuing #entities #extensions

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#bound #children #fact #forgiven #grow

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ↗

— Doug Larson

#detours #establishing #goals #interesting #right

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#cannot #conduct #confirm #daily #embedded

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#helps #plan #pregnancies #should #their

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#child #come #get #her #them

Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#buy #clothes #expensive #them #you

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#i #me #only #resist #respect

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#demanded #doubt #equal #every #half