Polykarp Kusch Quotes

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

Polykarp Kusch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: January 26, 1911 - March 20, 1993

Topics

OpportunityKnowledgeScienceWorld

We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry.

Joe Lonsdale

FinanceChallengesPlaceFixDollar

In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough to make the right call on that: to bet early, to put resources into it and have a pretty good application in the store at the moment when it opened.

Jeremy Stoppelman

GoodOpportunityMomentEnoughEarly

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

John Desmond Bernal

SimpleMindSexPsychologyComplex

The 24/7 nature of online debate, on the web and across social media, has allowed for more vibrant discussion of the opinions we publish - and your own.

Andrew Rosenthal

NatureSocial MediaMediaOpinions

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

Robert Lepage

ChildhoodWaitingMeChanceLonely

'French Women Don't Get Fat' has become something of a phenomenon.

Sonny Mehta

WomenFatBecomeSomethingGet

There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Michael Shanks

PeopleDownWayTearingApartAbout

I've never been to college, and I think about that. But I kept putting it off, and I am also thinking about having a child, and that's really important. Also, I want to do a lot of traveling and surfing - two of my hobbies.

Jorja Fox

I AmChildCollegeThinkThinking

I found myself at the beginning of 'Mad Men,' because I wasn't a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say - 'Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.'

Christina Hendricks

MyselfMoneyMenBeginningDress

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

William John Wills

PositiveGreatNothingDangerVery

We need people with real-world experience, especially in national security.

Todd Wilcox

ExperiencePeopleSecurityNeed

Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over - then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero.

Tim Wise

TruthAlonePainSpeakIgnoreLong

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