Taubman Museum Quotes & Sayings

This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Homo Sapiens almost every niche inhabited by that species.An illustrated encyclopedia of zoology should no more picture Homo Sapiens naked than it should picture Ursus arctus-the black bear- wearing a clown suit and riding a bicycle. — Daniel C. Dennett

During the time that Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of immunology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the serologic problem in very different ways. He would ask, What do these experiments force us to believe about the nature of the world? I would ask, What is the most. simple and general picture of the world that we can formulate that is not ruled by these experiments? I realized that medical and biological investigators were not attacking their problems the same way that theoretical physicists do, the way I had been in the habit of doing. — Linus Pauling

Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy. — Sandy Carter

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. — John Lee Hancock

Pfft. Wine is the greatest invention. Next to the vibrator, of course. They're equally fabulous. — Emma Hart

There's nothing wrong with caring for the people we love; the problem only comes when it's one person giving all the time. When it goes both ways, you have love. — Nalini Singh

When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me. — Karrine Steffans

but i want to ask her what is wrong with being dark and heavy
with your feet firmly on soil? — Salma Deera

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life. — Noah Baumbach

My intellect was my greatest vanity. — Dan Simmons

Authority is conferred by position, not character. — Mason Cooley