Deduced Quotes
37 quotes by 32 authors
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Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that…
— Karl Popper
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same.…
— Umberto Eco
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created…
— Garrett Hardin
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Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into…
— Christopher Isherwood
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When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of…
— Johannes Kepler
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The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.
— Christopher Paolini
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Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of…
— Fernando Pessoa
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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or…
— Jane Austen
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Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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All that we can hope from these inspirations, which are the fruits of unconscious work, is to obtain points of departure for such calculations. As…
— Henri Poincare
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Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.…
— Edward Weston
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What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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What I've deduced from Obama's teleprompter is this: The Obama Doctrine is, essentially, that America sucks. Everything is our fault. And to go forward, we…
— Doug Giles
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We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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I've never taken any acting classes. I took an acting class when I first started acting when I was 10. The guy who owned the…
— Kat Dennings
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[voiceover on the phone continued from the beginning; intercut with some live-action dialogue] The permutations were endless. They tried again going to the source, but…
— Primer
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