Essentially Quotes
973 quotes by 803 authors
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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
— Erwin Chargaff
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The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination of oxygen absorbed…
— Robert Mayer
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My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always…
— Giorgio Morandi
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Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can…
— Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
— Michel Foucault
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The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to…
— Noam Chomsky
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Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion,…
— Alexander Theroux
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To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
— Ambrose
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Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes…
— Robert D. Hare
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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Diets are essentially traning courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure
— Paul McKenna
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
— Roald Dahl
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[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one…
— Roald Dahl
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Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry,…
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and…
— Charlie Cook
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To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
— David R. Brower
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Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.
— Unknown Author
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