Extracted Quotes
46 quotes by 42 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
— Ansel Adams
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Extracted Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 46 Extracted Quotes, led by these top contributors: