“Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.” KnowsActorsRoomsCuttingCastsScoreEditing Author:Albert Brooks
“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.” PeopleIfsHumansPersonsMatterHandsMightSpeakBlackRoomsAudienceFiveGenerationsDiscoveryLifetimeSpeciesTalesScoreThinkerDocumentsMonumentTorchesSuccessorsHuman SpeciesInforming Book:William James: Essays and Lectures Source: William James: Essays and Lectures
“People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand what that means. It is also only a theory that the world goes round the Sun - it's just a theory for which there is an immense amount of evidence. There are many scientific theories that are in doubt. Even within evolution, there is some room for controversy. But that we are cousins of apes and jackals and starfish, let's say, that is a fact in the ordinary sense of the word.” PeopleWorldTryingMeanImportantSometimesFactsRoomsSunDoubtAtheismTheoryEvolutionAmountOrdinaryEvidenceRoundsPositive AtheismScoreImmenseCousinControversyApesScientific TheoryJackalsStarfish Author:Richard Dawkins
“There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.” RoomsNewspapersScoreBostonSeers Book:Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels