Prescientific Period Quotes & Sayings

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

You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater. — Patricia Richardson

Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my female cousins to judge whether boyfriends will make decent husbands or not by observing how they treat or mistreat their cars. — David Mitchell

But the night doesn't swallow her up.
Everywhere she goes she is still there;
the silence is as big as herself. — Adrienne Su

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing. — Llewellyn Rockwell

In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else. — John Oates

Better admit that there was some truth both in science and religion; and if they must fight, let it be elsewhere than in the brain of a hard-working scientist. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great. — Kemp Muhl

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley

Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars! — Richard Corliss

When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over. — Paul Smith

Where you some particular person because people recognized you as that? — Penelope Farmer

Despite illness of body or mind, in spite of blinding despair or habitual belief, who you are is whole.

Let nothing keep you separate from the truth. The soul, illumined from within, longs to be known for what it is.

Undying, untouched by fire or the storms of life, there is a place inside where stillness and abiding peace reside.You can ride the breath to go there.

Despite doubt or hopeless turns of mind, you are not broken. Spirit surrounds, embraces, fills you from the inside out. Release everything that isn't your true nature. What's left, the fullness, light and shadow, claim all that as your birthright. — Danna Faulds