Constructing Quotes
88 quotes by 85 authors
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
— Henri Bergson
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the…
— Tony Hoare
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain…
— Leon Foucault
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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
— Rudyard Kipling
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The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none but very hasty…
— Thomas Huxley
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What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to…
— Richard Serra
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Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you…
— Boomer Esiason
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One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth and…
— Tamara E. Jernigan
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The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee…
— Charles Tupper
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Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of…
— Fredric Jameson
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We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
— Paul Klee
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Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared…
— Stephen Crane
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The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial…
— Edmund Burke
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The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available…
— William Wilson
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We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
— Charles Simic
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The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
— Peter DeFazio
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It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found…
— R. B. Braithwaite
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