Discarded Quotes

138 quotes by 124 authors

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure… — Brandon Boyd
Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long… — Jarvis Cocker
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because… — Thomas A. Edison
Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith. — William Shakespeare
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be… — Carolyn Wells
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified… — James Bryant Conant
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis;… — Rajneesh
The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality,… — William H. Masters
I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective,… — Ivan Pavlov
Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to… — George H. Smith
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first… — Thomas Nagel
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into… — David Berlinski
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it… — Corinne Heline
I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag. — Steven Morrissey
Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That… — David Eddings
Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is… — Pope Francis
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile… — Louis Pasteur
Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The Constitution Will Likely… — Tommy Franks
Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves. — John Ashbery

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