Finely Tuned Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we… — Richard Dawkins
When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea… — John Polkinghorne
To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp… — Annie Dillard
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...… — Mark Bostridge
We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort… — Malcolm Gladwell
Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned. — Gautama Buddha
When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born… — Neil Shubin
The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It… — Charles Francis Richter
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.… — Athol Fugard
Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much… — Alan Bradley
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and… — Alan Woods
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. — Reggie Jackson
He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see… — Janet Fitch
Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned… — Theodore Isaac Rubin
We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal… — Charles Francis Richter

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14 authors contributed a total of 15 Finely Tuned Quotes as follows: