Imknow Quotes & Sayings

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is in the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates.A book is a heart that beats in the chest of another. — Rebecca Solnit

When you ask what are electrons and protons I ought to answer that this question is not a profitable one to ask and does not really have a meaning. The important thing about electrons and protons is not what they are but how they behave, how they move. I can describe the situation by comparing it to the game of chess. In chess, we have various chessmen, kings, knights, pawns and so on. If you ask what chessman is, the answer would be that it is a piece of wood, or a piece of ivory, or perhaps just a sign written on paper, or anything whatever. It does not matter. Each chessman has a characteristic way of moving and this is all that matters about it. The whole game os chess follows from this way of moving the various chessmen. — Paul A.M. Dirac

There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so. — Gerald M. Weinberg

Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time. — Patrick Taylor

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity. — Randall Kennedy

By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment. — Maximus The Confessor

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. — Shirley Chisholm

We want a culture of the people, by the people, and for the people, not defined by white European traditions, male preferences, or any other form of group identity. — R. R. Reno