John William Draper quote: "The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other."

As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw...
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER

Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and ...
SIR WILLIAM DRAPER

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
JOHN W. DRAPER

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
JOHN W. DRAPER

A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and fai...
ADAM DRAPER

In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so o...
ADAM DRAPER

No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capi...
ADAM DRAPER

I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about t...
ADAM DRAPER

I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tel...
ADAM DRAPER

Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world...
ADAM DRAPER

For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But...
ADAM DRAPER

The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into ...
ADAM DRAPER

Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people s...
ADAM DRAPER

Coinbase is 'the' brand in the Bitcoin space. Their founder Brian Armstrong was amongst the ...
ADAM DRAPER

If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It w...
ADAM DRAPER

Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as ...
ADAM DRAPER

There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. Th...
ADAM DRAPER

I think that governments are going to get disrupted by the blockchain. I think in the same way that ...
ADAM DRAPER

I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.
ADAM DRAPER

What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain a...
ADAM DRAPER

Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As ...
ADAM DRAPER

I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of...
ADAM DRAPER

I saw Bitcoin as an actual market opportunity: as a trillion-dollar marketplace with long-term poten...
ADAM DRAPER

The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying curren...
ADAM DRAPER

China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first d...
ADAM DRAPER

I think there will always be need of trusted voices in the investment community, but what the ICO ma...
ADAM DRAPER

Pave your own path and be fearless.
ADAM DRAPER

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to...
DOROTHY DRAPER

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's th...
SHARON DRAPER

The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something ...
ADAM DRAPER

What bitcoin does better than the current financial system is it's a better stored value globall...
ADAM DRAPER

I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and l...
SHARON DRAPER

I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand a...
SHARON DRAPER

With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just w...
SHARON DRAPER

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good gu...
SHARON DRAPER

Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.
SHARON DRAPER

I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the ...
SHARON DRAPER

I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
SHARON DRAPER

A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pr...
SHARON DRAPER

Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do...
SHARON DRAPER

I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platfo...
SHARON DRAPER

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them,...
SHARON DRAPER

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop...
SHARON DRAPER

Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for t...
ADAM DRAPER

It seems there's going to be a lot of specialty teams. Basically, how are we going to adjust to it i...
KRIS DRAPER

Once we can get on top of the spam, we can address some of our internal e-mail issues.
BETSY DRAPER

Testing on the spam filter last week went very well.
BETSY DRAPER

There's lots of information to get out to students. E-mail [messages act as] a key role for that.
BETSY DRAPER

The spam filter [suggestion] came up last year. It was a request from the Technology Fee Committee, ...
BETSY DRAPER

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his can...
RUTH DRAPER

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen - that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type a...
RUTH DRAPER

And as for my poor Glubjullas, they never came up at all! . . . I can't think why, because I general...
RUTH DRAPER

As a matter of fact, you know I am rather sorry you should see the garden now, because, alas! it is ...
RUTH DRAPER

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.
RUTH DRAPER

Cheli! The old fart. That's why he keeps playing -- he wanted that title.
KRIS DRAPER

Cujo is the reason we won the game,
KRIS DRAPER

Down low, it's going to be a whole different mindset. The coaches are going to have to coach to the ...
KRIS DRAPER

We have to play to these new rules, but we play to the system implemented by the coaches. Hopefully ...
KRIS DRAPER

Out of all the teams in our division, we were the least active because of how much money we had tied...
KRIS DRAPER

Obviously, we would love to have him in our lineup,
KRIS DRAPER

We're a veteran hockey club, we know better than that. We hung Manny out to dry.
KRIS DRAPER

Open standards tend to encourage creativity. We believe that entrepreneurs everywhere can better imp...
TIM DRAPER

One thing we wanted to do was take away Blake, with that big one-timer he has. We wanted to get into...
KRIS DRAPER

very, very generous and good people.
CHARLES DRAPER

The great, great thing is no tubes or wires. He's unattached.
NICOLE DRAPER

I've never been part of it. I'm really looking forward to it. After Vancouver and Calgary and what w...
KRIS DRAPER

I hope it was a positive experience for them. It's an honor that someone gave that money to the foun...
CHARLES DRAPER

When I heard ACL, my heart dropped,
CHARLES DRAPER

That was real exciting because we weren't expecting it. He just wanted us to play hard, don't worry ...
DONTAYE DRAPER

I do that a lot. I try to pick out a new one, but not the newest one. Sometimes they feel sticky. I ...
DONTAYE DRAPER

My jump shot was on at the beginning. I came out, shot a couple, and coach told me, 'Don't settle.' ...
DONTAYE DRAPER

He's one of the fastest guys I've ever played against. He's really quick and you just try your best ...
DONTAYE DRAPER

People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me ...
ADAM DRAPER

I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.'
ADAM DRAPER

I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a b...
ADAM DRAPER

When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod f...
ADAM DRAPER

What they're trying to do is to create the opportunity for them to be able to develop their land wit...
ERIC DRAPER

The Legislature should stop second-guessing the will of the voters.
ERIC DRAPER

Most environmental decisions are based on science and we should not substitute a political decision-...
ERIC DRAPER

It used to be that we really were opponents on a lot of policy issues. We weren't listening to each ...
ERIC DRAPER

Money changes everything. Especially when you have a lot of it. For Governor Bush, I think you're se...
ERIC DRAPER

Well, you know, usually we're complaining about the governor and his budget, but in this case, he re...
ERIC DRAPER

There's an ongoing kind of resistance movement to Babcock. But I don't think they have the juice to ...
ERIC DRAPER

It's a local project that got a big chunk of money and then had problems. Members don't forget that.
ERIC DRAPER

If approved by the legislature, this budget will set in stone Governor Bush's environmental legacy.
ERIC DRAPER

It's a great budget for the environment, it really is. It's more money than they've ever put into th...
ERIC DRAPER

I had to be convinced this team could win a national championship and our leaders convinced me it wa...
HOWIE DRAPER

It was a tough game. It was very fast and very exciting. They got the first goal on us, which has be...
HOWIE DRAPER

It's a tremendous feeling. It's a very, very good feeling. Our goal from the start was to win a cham...
HOWIE DRAPER

You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unprod...
DON DRAPER

The number of people still being touched by Jim Thorpe is phenomenal.
LYNNE DRAPER

When it comes to all-around athletes, I don't think anyone compares to Jim Thorpe. Sports was his en...
LYNNE DRAPER

We have 26 girls, mostly sophomores and freshmen. We're looking really good with lots of depth in ea...
LEESA DRAPER

It?s unbelievable she?s still here, it?s shocking to me. She?s been a real heart breaker for us beca...
JOANNE DRAPER

She?s like a poodle in a pit bull body. She has such a refined demeanor and a lady-like temperament ...
JOANNE DRAPER

He's a guy who can play a lot of minutes. He had a great year two years ago. We hope he's back. We h...
KRIS DRAPER

So you realize that our division just got that much tougher with the upgrades that all these teams m...
KRIS DRAPER

Here at the Joe, guys are getting used to the speed and the body positioning. Teams that can skate a...
KRIS DRAPER

Let's hope we don't hear the word 'trap' anymore,
KRIS DRAPER

I don't think they're going to have any choice but to open it up with the way the rules are,
KRIS DRAPER

We are thrilled that this day is finally here for Nick. This would not have happened without the pre...
MICHAEL DRAPER

It was a great year.
PAUL DRAPER

Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy.
TIMOTHY C. DRAPER

Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because peopl...
TIMOTHY C. DRAPER

Freedom is a delicate flower, like a pretty leaf in the air: It's hard to catch and may not be what ...
SHARON M. DRAPER

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V.
It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of...
SHARON M. DRAPER

Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.
DRAPER L. KAUFMAN

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, a...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; i...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu...
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe...
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, ...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, an...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their educ...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the ...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they ge...
JOHN WILLIAM MCCORMACK

Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make in...
JOHN WILLIAM WARD

Sometimes a man must stand for what is right and sometimes you must simply walk away and suffer the ...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They ...
JOHN WILLIAM MCCORMACK

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted t...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

In late October of 1962, it was our turn to go. Miss Hanrahan appeared in her state Ford Rambler, wh...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill ...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

A few days after I began my short story, I returned to his desk and handed him my updates. He pushed...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

The next day I was driven down to New York City to take the physical. It was one of the strangest th...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

A rose-red city half as old as Time.
DEAN JOHN WILLIAM BURGON

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

From the development of our world and its ability to hold life, to being born into a species that ha...
WILLIAM JOHN SHERMAN WALSH III

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

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John William Draper

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

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