Just after World War II this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

Well unfortunately I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper but I also have you know have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Truth be told ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry painting and music are destroyed or flourish.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I write early in the morning usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I'm not overly alarmist about it but I do think there are some worrying signs like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Unfenced by law the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

Love is a portion of the soul itself and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.