The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
For many people, the only reason to do anything is that it's best for them individually. And I think that's why planners… — Donald Shoup Copy Share Image
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything? — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image