Cited Quotes
40 quotes by 40 authors
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However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory…
— Charles Lane Poor
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For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical…
— Bill Bryson
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This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley…
— Warren G. Bennis
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There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication....
— Morris K. Jessup
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty…
— Milton Friedman
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You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results…
— Willard Libby
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it…
— Abraham Pais
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It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed…
— Kató Lomb
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Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient…
— Neil Postman
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Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that…
— Betsy Lerner
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My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals…
— Kenneth Arrow
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No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
— Samuel Johnson
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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Research cited by Robert Cohen has made the point that there is up to a gallon of extra mucus in the body created as a…
— Gabriel Cousens
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His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers,…
— Lou Lumenick
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Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are…
— E L Doctorow
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Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the…
— Gary Saul Morson
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