Categories Quotes

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Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. — Ishmael Reed
Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a… — Sarah Schulman
Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that… — Hans-Peter Durr
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires.… — Robert Collier
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be… — A. P. Herbert
The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe… — Antonio Damasio
There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one… — Louis Pasteur
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is… — Louis Pasteur
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear… — George Gaylord Simpson
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to… — Thomas Szasz
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick,… — Rajneesh
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition.… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill… — Steve Ross
We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.… — Gilbert Ryle
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion,… — Grey Owl
We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created… — Ananda Coomaraswamy
If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that… — Zhuangzi

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