If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. — Laura San Giacomo Copy Share Image
Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal. — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science.… — John Noble Copy Share Image
Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts,… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The layman always means, when he says reality that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
To put it in layman's terms, crazy is crazy. And crazy will find a way to do something crazy. Racist is racist.… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same… — Amos Tversky Copy Share Image
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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