People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.Steven Pinker
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.Steven Pinker
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.Karl Marx
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.Henry David Thoreau
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
