Arcane Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane… — Michael Jackson
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. — Milton Friedman
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in… — Isaac Asimov
Amanda Petrusichâ€™s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-â€˜em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery,… — Lenny Kaye
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical… — David Deutsch
Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it… — Lee Smolin
The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins… — Shereen El Feki
I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my… — Sara Sheridan
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what… — John Szarkowski
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. — Isaac Asimov
The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who… — Aleister Crowley
Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth.… — Duane Michals
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings… — William Safire
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own… — Nancy Pearcey
We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud. — Emanuel Ax
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system… — Charles Bass
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements. — Robert Genn
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. — Khalil Gibran
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our… — Al Gore
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human… — Stephen Jay Gould

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