If everyone is moving forward together then success takes care of itself.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die and not a final weakness.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

I believe society has a right to defend itself just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

In the 18th century James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.

Justice must always question itself just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Society is at odds with itself.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

I do love science fiction but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

Without renouncing the support of physics it is possible for the physiology of the senses not only to pursue its own course of development but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

In general science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature Cell The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Further the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.