Employed Quotes

344 quotes by 286 authors

Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may… — James Boswell
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have… — Charles Caleb Colton
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because… — John Dewey
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew… — Benjamin Rush
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the… — Leonardo da Vinci
By March, 70 percent of women would be employed. — Patience Jonathan
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It… — George H. Smith
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron… — Mary Wollstonecraft
An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than… — William Crawford Williamson
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can… — Hermann Nothnagel
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently… — Hudson Gurney
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi
This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and… — Charles George Gordon
When men are employed they are best contented. — Benjamin Franklin

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