Commensurable Science Quotes

#1. Knowledge that is not being used for winning of further knowledge does not even remain- it decays and disappears.

J. D. Bernal

#2. Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Kofi Annan

#3. Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled- 'you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.' And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden?

Claire Messud

#4. There really is, for humankind there's really no such thing as race. There's different tribes but not different races. We're all one species.

Bill Nye The Science Guy

#5. It's so strange to think: A year ago today, I was undoing my husband. Now I am almost done reassembling him.

Gillian Flynn

#6. I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

Andy Serkis

#7. Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

Robert Breault

#8. In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

Tadao Ando

#9. How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

Horace Walpole

#10. There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

Zora Neale Hurston