I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.