#mit

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#astronauts #i #i think #just #men

But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint of their own culture and world view in every street and building. And yet to be successful a city has to be open to continuous development, free to evolve and grow with the demands of new times. Like science fiction accounts of the future, ideal cities quickly become outmoded. ↗

— P.D. Smith

#pd-smith #urbanism #age

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#being #happened #hate #i #lose

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#boots #brown #committed #conjecture #dreams

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#consciousness #later #limitations #mind #originally

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#called #code #development #embodied #end

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#beings #created #creator #dishonor #divine

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#car #commitment #desire #drove #grand

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy. ↗

— Guglielmo Marconi

#committee #considered #everywhere #high #highest

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity. ↗

— Philip Massinger

#boldly #calamity #dares #die #valiant