Reflectivity Science Quotes & Sayings

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. — Alexander Pope

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb. — Hyman George Rickover

Alex was growing in prominence. I noticed him trending on Twitter from time to time, for telling his now millions of fans that U.S. scientists were covertly creating "man-fish hybrids," that atheists "worship Lucifer," and that the government puts secret chemicals in juice boxes to turn Americans gay: "After you're done drinking your little juices you're ready to put makeup on, wear a short skirt, put together a garden of roses or something." And — Jon Ronson

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. — Lynn Jennings

If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of DSM (and the need for the easier explanations such as DSM-IV Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis) would be shrunk to a pamphlet in two generations. — John Briere

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right? — Susie Orbach

Genius is nothing but continued attention. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love. — Kenneth Oppel

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. — Oscar Wilde

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work. — Alex Chiu

Her lids tremble and her eyeballs look like they might disappear into her head. — Rebecca Stead

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life. — Jeffrey Tucker

Now, there are important rules in Fairyland, rules from which I shall one day be exempt, when my papers have been processed at last and I am possessed of the golden ring of diplomatic immunity. — Catherynne M Valente

I feel the healing
hands of God
touch my heart
and kiss my soul. — Harley King

The golf course. He never thought he'd sink so low, but he did, like every other old duffer across the land. — T.C. Boyle