One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship. — William Morris Copy Share Image
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading… — Santigold Copy Share Image
Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers - those people ride a… — Wolfgang Sachs Copy Share Image
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire;… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in. — John Selden Copy Share Image
At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor -… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual… — Henry Dunant Copy Share Image
Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
