Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
Paul Nurse
It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.
Diana Nyad
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us... →
Naomi Shihab Nye
You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the... →
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
Lupita Nyong'o
It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself.... →
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because... →
I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that... →
Karen O
I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go... →
Conan O'Brien
I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my... →
Dan O'Brien