Employs Quotes

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True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. — Cleveland Abbe
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial… — John Playfair
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges… — Humphry Davy
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to… — John Quincy Adams
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. — Socrates
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary… — Pope Pius XI
Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it… — John Ruskin
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldnt find a place for their dubious talents… — L. Neil Smith
God employs different strategies for different places or purposes — Rick Joyner
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect… — Derek Bailey
We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs… — Jerry A. Coyne
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed… — Thomas Huxley
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit oneâ€™s endâ€¦.Then, again, during… — J. L. Carr
MapReduce has become the assembly language for big data processing, and SnapReduce employs sophisticated techniques to compile SnapLogic data integration pipelines into this new big… — Greg Benson

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