Best Details Sayings
1302 Details quotes by 1021 unique authors
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It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next…
— Sydney Brenner
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Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may…
— Max Delbruck
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Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance...
— Lewis Thomas
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Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the…
— Donald Cram
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Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter…
— Stephen King
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and…
— Harrison Ford
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Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas.…
— T. Boone Pickens
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity…
— Edward Tufte
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Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.
— Henry Van Dyke
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Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.
— Brian J. White
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We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major…
— H. Bentley Glass
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,…
— George Wilson
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Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
— John Tuzo Wilson
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Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts…
— Robert T. Bakker
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It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime…
— Alexander Fleming
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What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.
— Unknown Author
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Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its…
— Owen Gingerich
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The…
— Julian Coolidge
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At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those…
— Therese of Lisieux
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence…
— Adam Nicolson
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Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the…
— Ross Garnaut
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Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
— Gregory Bateson
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