Herbert Knight Quotes

It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and "origin of species" are now so intimately associated with the name of Darwin that we are apt to forger that the idea of common descent had been prominent in the mnds of naturalists before he wrote, and that, for more than half a century, zealous investigators had been devoting themselves to the experimental study of that possibility. Prominent among this group of experimenters may be mentioned Koelreauter, John Hunter, Herbert Knight, Gartner, Jordan. Naudin, Godron, Lecoq, Wichura
men whose names are familiar to every reader of Animals and Plants unders Domestication. ~ William Bateson

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. ~ David Herbert Donald

Hee is rich enough that wants nothing. ~ George Herbert

What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can, Edric said. ~ Frank Herbert

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite. ~ Frank Herbert

We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are not being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power. ~ Frank Herbert

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it. ~ Herbert Hoover

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face. ~ Frank Herbert

Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. People enter a permanent state of alertness to ward off attacks. You see the absolute rule of the autocrat. All new things become dangerous frontier districts - new planets, new economic areas to exploit, new ideas or new devices, visitors - everything suspect. Feudalism takes firm hold, sometimes disguised as a politbureau or similar structure, but always present. Hereditary succession follows the lines of power. The blood of the powerful dominates. ~ Frank Herbert

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril. ~ Frank Herbert

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the desert sands, and pacing the margin of the sea, and chasing knights all over the place, and devouring damsels, and going on generally- whereas I liked to get my meals regular and then to prop my back against a bit of rock and snooze a bit, and wake up and think of things going on and how they kept going on just the same, you know! ~ Kenneth Grahame

When it comes to the self in becoming, the greatest enrichment another person can bring to your life is the gift of enabling you to be yourself, and the influence of helping that self reach its full potential. With this comes the freedom for that real self to grow. Whether in the form of a friend, family member or a beloved, those who will be true blessings to us are those with whom we can diminish our social affectations, cast off our fears and insecurities, break free the shackles of unnaturalness that the social world brings to bear on us, and be freed from the yoke of impressing on others the artificial selves we create for the watching world. Stay close to the ones who can help bring out all the facets of the excellent self that's inside you - for then you will delight in the freedom to shine. ~ James Knight - The Philosophical Muser Blog

Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. - Darwi Odrade ~ Frank Herbert

After so many deaths I live and write; ~ George Herbert

In Dune and Dune Messiah, he [Frank Herbert] was cautioning against pride and overconfidence, that form of narcissism described in Greek tragedies that invariably led to the great fall. ~ Brian Herbert

Control the coinage and the courts - let the rabble have the rest. ~ Frank Herbert

The history of the mind is not a linear history. Each epoch has its "Age of Reason" and its "Fall." The ~ John Knight Lundwall

Men, we don't need you in shining armor.
We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave. ~ Virginia Madsen

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles. ~ George Herbert

The Happy Trinity is her home: nothing can trouble her joy.
She is the bird that evades every net: the wild deer that leaps every pitfall.
Like the mother bird to its chickens or a shield to the armed knight: so is the Lord to her mind, in His unchanging lucidity.
Bogies will not scare her in the dark: bullets will not frighten her in the day.
Falsehoods tricked out as truths assail her in vain: she sees through the lie as if it were glass.
The invisible germ will not harm her: nor yet the glittering sunstroke.
A thousand fail to solve the problem, ten thousand choose the wrong turning: but she passes safely through.
He details immortal gods to attend her: upon every road where she must travel.
They take her hand at hard places: she will not stub her toes in the dark.
She may walk among lions and rattlesnakes: among dinosaurs and nurseries of lionettes.
He fills her brim full with immensity of life: he leads her to see the world's desire. ~ C.S. Lewis

For washing his hands, none sels his lands. ~ George Herbert

Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements. ~ George Herbert

It was great but intense to try to go back into a character's mind, a mind that is filled with self-loathing and a mind that is male. It is fun to try to psychoanalyze why a character acts and feels the way he/she does, and doing it as a different gender lends itself to many challenges. My desire to delve into the male psyche comes from many years of being drawn to men that seem to have a darker side. But there is also light in them, and it is that duality and intensity that makes me feel alive. Thorne is very much that man as is my first male protagonist, Michael, from the Natalie's Edge series. Each man, while plagued with a dark past and demons, has this glorious light within them, fighting noble causes. I picture them as true anti-heroes, like the likes of Batman, the Dark Knight. ~ R.B. O'Brien

The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. ~ Herbert Hoover

Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle. ~ George Herbert

Look, I like gritty. I write gritty. There is a time and a place for gritty. I'll take my Batman gritty, thank you, and I will acknowledge that such a portrayal means that my 11-year-old has to wait before he sees The Dark Knight. But if Hollywood turns out a Superman movie that I can't take him to? They've done something wrong. ~ Greg Rucka

Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme. ~ Herbert Simon

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness. ~ Herbert Spencer

I will take their ridiculous peace and shove it down their cold metal throats. ~ Brian Herbert

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ~ Herbert Hoover

I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined. ~ Frank Herbert

Least at thine own things laugh. ~ George Herbert

Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company. ~ Herbert Hoover

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. ~ Frank Herbert

Do you think that any of us... any of the costumes are normal? We're all crazy. But we're the exact kind of crazy that the world needs right now. The exact kind. ~ Brian Michael Bendis

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.
[Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.] ~ George Herbert

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open. ~ Brian Herbert

We already have the cops, the FBI and the CIA looking for us, not to mention the enemy. The last thing we need is for MI6 to get in on the hunt, too. -Cade Knight ~ Brian Bern

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. ~ Herbert Read

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care. ~ A.P. Herbert

Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account. ~ Richard Reti

Absolute prediction is completion ... is death! ~ Frank Herbert

Of a little thing a little displeaseth. ~ George Herbert