#rely

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#apples #arrogance #been #beings #benefit

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#conferred #habit #liberty #merely #privilege

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#architecture #arts #most #slowly #soul

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. ↗

— Iain Banks

#book #entirely #ever #film #into

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. ↗

— William Barclay

#good #our #people #surely #time

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#been #care #else #everyone #going

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#gave #his #money #notoriously #rarely