Hands Quotes

12486 Hands quotes by 5912 unique authors

[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my… — Unknown Author
To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with… — Frank Drake
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a… — Unknown Author
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well… — Unknown Author
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal… — Unknown Author
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic… — Chauncey Guy Suits
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. — Walter Sickert
There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do .… — Unknown Author
Extending your hand is extending yourself. — Rod McKuen
Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the… — Owen Gingerich
Whatever I design, it has to please my eye. If I go to work on an office block, I'll draw the office that I want… — Unknown Author
I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white… — Kofi Annan
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This… — Unknown Author
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. — Unknown Author
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to… — Joel Barlow
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the… — Joel Barlow
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure… — Sun Tzu
On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the… — Sun Tzu
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you… — J. Reuben Clark
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only… — Michel de Montaigne
... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in… — Albert Einstein
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some… — Immanuel Kant
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had… — Richard Dawkins
Newspapers are the second hand of history. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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