Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less,… — Robert Stawell Ball Copy Share Image
There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow,… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make… — Bernard Brodie Copy Share Image
All changes in space which we see, hear, smell or taste are literally tactile impressions. All our senses are variations of our… — Rudolf von Laban Copy Share Image
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is… — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it — Niccolo Paganini Copy Share Image
Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
It is through drawing that masters are first revealed, through drawing that they live and prove their value, whatever variations they may… — Michael Gerard Bauer Copy Share Image
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance… — Jan Timman Copy Share Image
Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be… — Guo Xiang Copy Share Image
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial. — Lorna Byrne Copy Share Image
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth.… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though… — David Corbett Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image