Famous quotes containing the words science, talent and/or search:
“Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctors on the very day.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why dont you use them in the search for love?”
—Lech Walesa (b. 1943)