Essentially Quotes

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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. — Erwin Chargaff
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
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
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
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.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. — Michel Foucault
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
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
To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized? — Ambrose
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
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
Diets are essentially traning courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure — Paul McKenna
Good writing is essentially rewriting. — Roald Dahl
[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
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
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately — Mikhail Botvinnik
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
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
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
Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible. — Unknown Author

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