17 Quotes by Michael Brooks

This area is very sensitive to me. The city is trying to hold on to $500,000 for Streetscape, but returned nearly $500,000 in grant money earmarked (for the Hugh Cale project) designed to help low-income residents. You do the math. When Streetscape is more important than children, senior citizens and struggling families, we have a problem.

There were two explosive devices that went off pretty much simultaneously at two separate buildings -- the mosque and the administrative building.

I don't like how the community has been fractured. It's important for me that the pride and spirit of the Lawrence school district be restored.

The electric bill was too high to begin with and they can't pay. That has to be put back on the agenda and (the surcharge) taken off.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe – or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Sometimes, the idea that science is a neutral, careful, bias-avoiding discipline has a bad day.

In other words the effect of good friends is roughly similar to giving up smoking or making a significant cut to your intake of alcohol. A 2012 study, which followed 2,000 US citizens aged fifty and above, found that being chronically lonely was associated with being almost twice as likely to die over the period of the study. The.

Once that resigned acceptance of a discovery comes, we forget that there was once such a kerfuffle. We act as if this truth were always with us, that it is self-evident. We forget the decades of persecution someone endured in order to shepherd us to the view we would now die to defend. And so we become comfortable – so comfortable that we will wantonly persecute the man or woman who comes to disturb our peaceful state.