Applicability Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Genius is power, talent is applicability. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity. — Vladimir Lenin
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. — Werner Heisenberg
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

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