Eithne Ni Quotes & Sayings

Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Ribosomes contain RNA, messenger RNA provides the information, transfer RNAs brings the amino acids; so the protein-making machinery is an RNA machinery, completely. — Christian De Duve

A just system must generate its own support. — John Rawls

He grinned at me and whispered, I'm going to kiss you now. It'll be a big one, so don't hit me. — Jennifer Echols

Those who are resilient can more quickly regain their equilibrium and spring back when they are thrown off kilter by the storms of life. — Mary Buchan

Is it not indeed, possible that, while a high order of genius is necessarily ambitious, the highest is above that which is termed ambition? And may it not thus happen that many far greater than Milton have contentedly remained "mute and inglorious"? I believe that the world has never seen - and that, unless through some series of accidents goading the noblest order of mind into distateful exertion, the world will never see - that full extent of triumphant execution, in the richer domains of art, of which the human nature is absolutely capable. — Edgar Allan Poe

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents. — Immanuel Kant

The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man. — Plato

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa. — B.F. Skinner

When a customer asks what no one else has ever asked, pay close attention. — Ron Kaufman

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention. — Ingrid Newkirk

Everybody has a product to sell - no — Peter Thiel

Witches know that people die; and if they manages to die after a long time, leavin' the world better than they went an' found it, well then, that's surely a reason to be happy. All the rest of it is just tidyin' up. — Terry Pratchett