Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If I'm making a chord progression on guitar, and I like it, but the next day when I play, and it doesn't… — Alex G Copy Share Image
Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
The best methods are those which help the life energy to resume its inner work of healing — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with… — Leanne Payne Copy Share Image
Some directors are open to ideas, and some are rigid. And, some actors are into method acting, and some, instinctive. — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ]… — Francois-Joseph Servois Copy Share Image
The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I think in some cases busing did improve the situation in some areas; in some cases it didn't. We had busing in… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Another method (of depopulation) is disease infection through bio-weapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which are race targeting weapons. There is a… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis. — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes… — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to… — Gail Saltz Copy Share Image
Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
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