Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down before, not knowing what's around the corner and then seeing a landscape that is so extraordinarily beautiful and complex, being part of the community that is driving the boundaries of knowledge and giving us insight into the amazing process of life.
One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason that when woods are felled, when they are suppressed by tarmac and concrete and asphalt, it is not only unique species and habitats that disappear, but also unique memories, unique forms of thought.
When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.