"If you're willing to do the work, you can have anything."

“It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may be interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.”

“I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'”

“Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.”

“Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.”

Source : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

“We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.”

“The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.”

“To call me a woman is very nice.”

“Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.”