Aim Quotes

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The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. — Louis Simpson
Jan 1899 You must aim at the Staff College, but for the love of God never become a professional Staff Officer. Never lose touch with… — Richard Meinertzhagen
Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass. — Condoleezza Rice
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help… — George Horace Lorimer
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century. — Baltasar Gracian
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one… — Arthur Eddington
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — William James Mayo
Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there. — Samuel Insull
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and,… — Othniel Charles Marsh
The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous. — Libbie Hyman
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert. — Gottlob Frege
The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable… — Lincoln Barnett
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not… — Charles Scott Sherrington
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.… — Nelson Goodman
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. — Pierre Duhem
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever… — Eugenie Scott
Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim… — Eike Batista
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,… — Friedrich Engels

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