Prescientific Period Quotes

#1. It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Michael Crichton

#2. Populism and elitism are the same thing. They are class prejudices, crude class prejudices that so-and-so, because they are uneducated, is less worthy, or so-and-so, because they are richer or more educated, is unworthy.

David Brooks

#3. If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. Don't start by talking about your products and services instead think about the people you are trying to reach

David Meerman Scott

#5. The world is immeasurably complex and the private stock of reason is small.

David Brooks

#6. I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

Jerome K. Jerome

#7. You've got to make sure that you don't overstep your boundaries with teachers, especially when it's report card day or when you're about to take a test.

Jordan Francis

#8. Constructing models is something the human brain is very good at. When we are asleep it is called dreaming; when we are awake we call it imagination or, when it is exceptionally vivid, hallucination.

Richard Dawkins

#9. As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

Edward Gibbon

#10. No matter what path Carter would take us, I'd go with him.

Tijan

#11. I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.

Harvey Keitel

#12. Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Robert Moog

#13. An enemy sees his attackers laughing? It is better than all the insults. A man who laughs as he goes into battle is a man who has confidence, and a man with confidence is terrifying to an enemy. "For the whore!" I shouted.

Bernard Cornwell