Development Quotes
2531 quotes by 1690 authors
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Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations,…
— John F. Kennedy
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The new build will play a vital role in the £1billion regeneration project at Longbridge, providing a strong educational element to the employment led mixed-use…
— Karren Brady
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The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to…
— Jerome Isaac Friedman
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted…
— Rollo May
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If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the president, or Western…
— Zhores Alferov
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The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task…
— Aristid Lindenmayer
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The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much…
— John H. Dietrich
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We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but…
— John Ambrose Fleming
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Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.
— John Quinton
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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple…
— Robert D. Putnam
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent…
— William Wardell
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The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult…
— H. Bentley Glass
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident…
— Ernest Lawrence
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The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in…
— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and…
— C. D. Darlington
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Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience…
— Norbert Elias
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The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an…
— August Kekule
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We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of…
— Heinrich Burkhardt
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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved…
— John Polkinghorne
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Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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