Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need… — Larry Moss Copy Share Image
It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books… — Briar Kit Esme Copy Share Image
“Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning… — W.K. Wimsatt Copy Share Image
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The fellow who wrote the post about sharing a bear suit with a girl at a party saw my illustration and emailed… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution,… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichés of what movie stars are and this and… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“Some people say they don’t believe in God, but they believe in an energy that moves through all living things. Others say… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings.… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it… — Vladimir Belousov Copy Share Image
We are not just bundles of atoms being pushed around. But, there's something spiritual about us whether we give that a religious… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude:… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nations are like people. Once you understand the interactions between nations, it's easy to understand why things are done, in terms of… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“Life is a story. It’s full of chapters. And the beauty of life is that not only do you get to choose… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“It’s never possible to know for certain the “true” source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection)… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image