When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist who is asked if he is a ..."Newtonian" or if he is a "Pasteurian."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse- nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malice--with an angel bobbing a...bout unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive. Oh, England. Sick in head and sick in heart, Sick in whole and every part, And yet sicker thou art still For thinking that thou art not ill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I ...did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators wh...o, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have what I would call educational genocide. I'm concerned about learning totally, but I'm immersed in the disastrous record of... how many black kids are going into science. They are very few and far between. I've said that when I see more black students in the laboratories than I see on the football field, I'll be happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for... the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cat-lovers will no doubt point out that the elegance and dignity of cats are the consequence of their sojourn in the temples of th...e gods, where their attitudes and movements were regarded as divine prognostications. Be that as it may, it is obvious that the cat's wealth of expressions make it an ideal candidate for such a role. Unlike the dog, which either wags its tail or does not wag its tail, the cat possesses a wide range of means to convey its emotions: It arches its back, makes its fur stand on end, meows, rubs itself against furniture and against humans, purrs, lashes its tail, spits, and hisses. The priests of Bacht, therefore, had ample material for interpretation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »