Famous quotes containing the words named and/or desire:
“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without “taste,” at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)