Applicability Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the…
— Reginald Fessenden
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and…
— Albert Einstein
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more…
— Albert Einstein
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From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of…
— John Gorrie
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Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that…
— Noam Chomsky
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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In…
— Horace
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The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.
— Raymond Louis Wilder
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
— Karl Jaspers
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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genius is power, talent is applicability.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography,…
— Tom Shippey
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A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such…
— William James
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The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.
— Vladimir Lenin
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Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
— Werner Heisenberg
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Who Wrote These Applicability Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Applicability Quotes as follows: