Mindenekfelett Quotes & Sayings

So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species? — Peter Singer

Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It's not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it's the vicarious participation in discovery itself. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings. — Julie Bowen

Heaven ... a place where everything that is not music is silence. — George MacDonald

Do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone? — David Wroblewski

The parched soil of fear needs steady rain. — Max Lucado

Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?
p 181 — Melanie Benjamin

I'm never going to be like, 'Oh, this attention from women sucks.' It's flattering 99 percent of the time. — Taylor Kitsch

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself. — Charles Kennedy

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself. — Neil Postman