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162 quotes by 152 authors

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to… — Samuel Butler
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to… — Herbert Spencer
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another,… — Roderick Murchison
The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly… — Carl von Clausewitz
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead… — Elias Canetti
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. — John B. S. Haldane
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of… — John Maynard Keynes
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a… — Thomas Kuhn
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of… — Oliver Goldsmith
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers,… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation… — Robert Stawell Ball
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole… — James Hutton
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an… — August Kekule
There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of… — Carl Jung
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find… — John D. Barrow
The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes… — Benjamin Graham
It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but… — Pope Pius X
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was… — Fernand Braudel

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