Devising Quotes

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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this… — Xavier Becerra
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question… — Claude Bernard
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their… — Gene Wolfe
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.… — Benoit Mandelbrot
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those… — James Madison
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising… — James Madison
Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had… — Janet Morris
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden… — Henry Hazlitt
Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our… — Robert Menzies
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. — Robert Menzies
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho
To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind… — Joseph Wood Krutch
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions… — Alan Watts
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of… — Alan Bradley
The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them. — Peter Medawar
I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to… — Paul Stamets
Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it. — John of Kronstadt
Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my… — Chester Carlson
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who… — Diane Ackerman
The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can give… — Gavin de Beer

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