A.P. Herbert Quotes
Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.
It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.
The mind and body communicate constantly. What the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences is sent from our brain to the rest of the body.
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.
If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.
There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.
Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.
The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
