Better Understood Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four… — John Adams
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war. — Confucius
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,… — Florence Nightingale
All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean -- or even over… — Arthur B. Robinson
Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all.… — Frederick Buechner
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. — Christopher Lasch
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management. — Samuel Wilson
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of… — Margaret Fuller
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. — Edward Lawrie Tatum
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind… — George Washington
most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. — Ernst Mayr
His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good. — John Greenleaf Whittier
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable. — Alain Resnais
I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned up without the… — Ron Paul
Really, doesnÂ´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even… — Ernst Junger
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of… — Alan Alda

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