Extracted Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the… — Ansel Adams
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical… — Bertrand Russell
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that… — Michael Faraday
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own,… — Jacques Monod
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given… — John Tukey
Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted… — Homer
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event… — Alain Badiou
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an… — Erwin Chargaff
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild… — Vandana Shiva
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck.… — Lewis Hyde
Iâ€™m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. — Ansel Adams
I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books. — Charlotte Dacre
Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that… — Russell L. Ackoff
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he… — Douglas Adams
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn… — Carl Sagan
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In… — Terence McKenna
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted… — Khalil Gibran
A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is. — Rabindranath Tagore
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts… — Gary Saul Morson

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42 authors contributed a total of 46 Extracted Quotes, led by these top contributors: