Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Human emotion isn't neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable. — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
I'm a little nervous. Definitely. Especially coming from an album like Biophilia, which was about the universe. This is more of a… — Bjork Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
