H.W. Charles Quotes

To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally.

What is the most challenging is the industry of fashion is pushing for speedy consumption.

Sometimes you lose some friends and you get new ones.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

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

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.

Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

When one does something, one must go back to the ancients.

The rich don't have children; they have heirs.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

Ecstasy hates company.

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.