Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys. — Gail Pool Copy Share Image
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change, — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
When we're true to ourselves, we become instruments of truth for the planet. Because we're all connected, we touch the lives of… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore,… — Eric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic… — Majid Khadduri Copy Share Image
There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less.… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image