I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I think anybody who tries to follow the conventional Hollywood rule, will probably be better liked than the ones who try to… — Bruno Zheng Wu Copy Share Image
Remember, the conventional wisdom is, "Yeah, you can do this like [Donald] Trump has done it during the primaries, buuuut once you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if… — Lester Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults -… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty.… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Sun Tzu's ideas as expressed above had a profound effect on Ho Chi Minh, who sought to defeat both the French and… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image