“The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.” MindMayPleasureRichMankindIndustryCapableClaimsPrivilegeIntellectSensesEnjoymentReliefTemporaryExclusiveForgetfulnessLuxuriousTemporary Relief Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level.” ThinkingImportantEyeRunningLevelsSeeingDesignProduceEvolutionCapableIllusionClaimsWingsLegsDrivingFlyingAdaptation Author:Richard Dawkins
“The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.” Has BeensStillsImportantSeemsProcessDifferencesKnownPracticePhotographyCapableClaimsDigitalAbandonRhetoricObjectivityFabricationImaging Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History
“I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.” CapableClaimsRegardCriticalEvaluate Author:Bill Nye
“There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.” ThinkingMenWantGivingHelpingHomeAmericaExistenceConsciousnessVirtueImagineFeminismOfficeCapableUnderstoodClaimsMalesFeministCoffeeImagine ThatDishesWomen WantBasking Author:Germaine Greer