Characteristic Quotes

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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are… — Michael Crichton
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that… — Evelyn Waugh
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t… — Rajneesh
I don't have any choice any more. I am in a choiceless awareness. I don't have to be aware. I am simply aware. Now it… — Rajneesh
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. — Robert M. Lindner
I hope you can understand one thing, I will like you till the day I die. Don't they say there's no reasons when you love… — Lee Dong-gun
The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of… — Ira Remsen
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible… — Albert Hofmann
You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is… — Marsha Johnson Evans
On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes… — Victor Grignard
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed… — Gregor Mendel
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art,… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic… — Eric Hoffer
Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner. — Noel Carroll
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It… — Anthony of Sourozh
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel

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