[Science] seldom proceedsinthestraightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward†are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

-Watson,James D(ewey)
  The Double Helix.

The relation between the human tongue, the human psyche and butterfat is not very complex. The first two love the third.

-Waxman, Howard
  In Newsweek, 30 Nov.

Hissensuality has all drifted intosexual vanity, delight for being the candletothemoths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity† His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationshipsöthe lack of a sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideasöall these defects came largely from the flippant and worthless self- complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women.

-Webb, (Martha) Beatrice ne¤  e Potter
  Of George Bernard Shaw. Diary entry, 8 May.

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well onpaper, suchasnational budgets or industrial balance sheets.

-Weil, Simone
La condition ouvrie'  re,'La rationalisation' (published1951).

Humanhistory becomesmoreand morea racebetween education and catastrophe.

-Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)
  The Outline of History, vol.2, ch.41.

Antifeminists, from Chesterton down to Dr Lionel Tayler, want women to specialise in virtue.While men are rolling round the world having murderous and otherwise sinful adventures of an enjoyable nature, in commerce, exploration or art, women are to stayat home earning the promotion of the human race to a better world.

-West, Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield
  'The Personal ServiceAssociation:Work for Idle Hands to Do', in The Clarion,13 Dec.

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass,'Children of Adam','I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.

From what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  The Bridge of San Luis Rey, ch.3.

   The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

-Williams, Raymond
  Culture and Society, ch.3.

Whenartcommunicates,a humanexperience isactively offered and actively received.Below this activity threshold there can be no art.

-Williams, Raymond
  The Long Revolution, pt.1, ch.1.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, nowapparent in whatever iswrittendown, istheformof a humanbeing.If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
The Captain's Death Bed,'Reading' (published1950).

Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a'   l'espe'  ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e¤  chappe me"  me a'   l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

-Crayencour
Me¤  moires d'Hadrien.