Pastoral Resources

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Science is facts.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Facts do not speak.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.