I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year ... for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the bo...y sitting next to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small ...you are if you have faith and plan of action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood. St. Peter's... cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[When asked by the judge, after her first arrest, at age 15: "Do you expect to convert people to socialism by talking on Broadway?...":] Indeed I do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment to... them when they're 15 years old. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immat...ure freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you look at the 150 years of modern China's history since the Opium Wars, then you can't avoid the conclusion that the last 15 ...years are the best 15 years in China's modern history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both art and physics are unique forms of language. Each has a specialized lexicon of symbols that is used in a distinctive syntax.... Their very different and specific contexts obscure their connection to everyday language as well as to each other. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy just how often the terms of one can be applied to the concepts of the other. "Volume," "space," "mass," "force," "light," "color," "tension," "relationship," and "density" are descriptive words that are heard repeatedly if you trail along with a museum docent. They also appear on the blackboards of freshman college physics lectures. The proponents of these two diverse endeavors wax poetic about elegance, symmetry, beauty, and aesthetics. While physicists demonstrate that A equals B or that X is the same as Y, artists often choose signs, symbols, and allegories to equate a painterly image with a feature of experience. Both of these techniques reveal previously hidden relationships.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first man to discover Chinook salmon in the Columbia, caught 264 in a day and carried them across the river by walking on the ...backs of other fish. His greatest feat, however, was learning the Chinook jargon in 15 minutes from listening to salmon talk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »