Between Quotes

The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.

It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.