A Quote by Jacques Barzun

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Jacques Barzun

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Jacques Barzun
American - Educator
November 30, 1907 - October 25, 2012

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

Clifford Geertz

All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.

Elizabeth Towne

Sometimes even a well-rested steak will lose juices when you cut into it. Sometimes a completely un-rested steak won't spill a drop. But as a general rule, resting meat for about one-third of its total cooking time guarantees that more juices will stay inside than on your cutting board or plate.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.

Rodney Stark

I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.

Neil Diamond

When I’m rested, I’m at my best.

Halle Berry

It's very important to be rested.

John Isner

Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.

Mary Kay Ash

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

Mary Kay Ash

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Ovid

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

Ovid

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.