How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is... emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two myths must be shattered: that of the evil stepparent . . . and the myth of instant love, which places unrealistic demands on a...ll members of the blended family. . . . Between the two opposing myths lies reality. The recognition of reality is, I believe, the most important step toward the building of a successful second family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on st...ep on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, a...nd we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's one for the money, Two for the show,... Three to get ready, Now go, cat, go! But don't you step on my Blue Suede Shoes. You can do anything but lay off my Blue Suede Shoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were very few houses along the road, yet they did not altogether fail, as if the law by which men are dispersed over the glo...be were a very stringent one, and not to be resisted with impunity or for slight reasons. There were even the germs of one or two villages just beginning to expand. The beauty of the road itself was remarkable. The various evergreens, many of which are rare with us,... lined its sides, in some places, like a long front yard, springing up from the smooth grass-plots which uninterruptedly border it, and are made fertile by its wash; while it was but a step on either hand to the grim, untrodden wilderness, whose tangled labarynth of living, fallen, and decaying trees only the deer and moose, the bear and wolf can easily penetrate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some ...air in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The king said, -Divide the living boy in two; then give half to the one, and half to the other. But the woman whose son was alive... said to the king -because compassion for her son burned within her - -Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him! The other said, -It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. Then the king responded: -Give the first woman the living boy; do not kill him. She is his mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are ...lit only from one side unused and empty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »