Adopts Quotes
33 quotes by 29 authors
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True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
— Cleveland Abbe
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No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field…
— Reginald Fessenden
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on…
— Strother Martin
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Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies…
— Barbara Deming
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The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that…
— Errico Malatesta
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Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence…
— Paul Davies
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People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -…
— Paul Davies
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Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
— Albert Einstein
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I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention…
— Karl Popper
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A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
— Clay Shirky
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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it,…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner…
— Marquis de Sade
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The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its…
— Maria Montessori
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to…
— Dan Smoot
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Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent,…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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