If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans! — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my… — Moby Copy Share Image
The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There… — Ned Colletti Copy Share Image
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite,… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Over the longer term, we need to work toward a pro-growth tax code that is fairer and simpler than what we have… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image