Almost Certainly Quotes
89 quotes by 78 authors
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I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is…
— George Wald
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If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.
— Peter Thiel
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Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our…
— William Crookes
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I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the…
— Glenn Gould
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To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.
— Jamais Cascio
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
— J D Salinger
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't…
— Billy Graham
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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races…
— Charles Darwin
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The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism…
— Alan Moore
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I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create…
— Andrew Weil
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Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of…
— Geoff Mulgan
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what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's…
— Bill McKibben
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Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point…
— Douglas Adams
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Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of…
— C.S. Lewis
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if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the…
— Terry Pratchett
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I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness…
— Henry Hazlitt
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