Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

My process is learn, decide, and do. I've never seen a problem that couldn't be solved this way.

I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.

The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity.

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend.

You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.

Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

In my own life, as the nearer I get to the end of life on this earth, the simpler I want to become.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.

My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so.

Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me [Gretchen Wieners], but I can’t help it that I’m popular.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market.

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

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