Constructions Quotes

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link… — Albert Einstein
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth… — Thomas Jefferson
The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements.… — Paul Carus
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions,… — David Foreman
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. — Thomas Jefferson
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of… — Manuel De Landa
World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. — Stephen Jay Gould
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other peopleâ€™s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. — Clifford Geertz
That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to… — Paul Watzlawick
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and… — Richard P. Feynman
Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated… — Jeffrey Eugenides
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. — Katharine Anthony
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions — Roland Barthes
My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and… — Dana Schutz
Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his… — Saul Bellow
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. — Evangelista Torricelli
Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man… — Augusto Boal
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. — Gregory of Nazianzus

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