Hardly Quotes

1520 quotes by 1098 authors

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to… — Seneca the Younger
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple… — Simon Newcomb
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that… — Bertrand Russell
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down. — Russell Baker
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something… — Francis Crick
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism.… — Luis Federico Leloir
You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the… — Michael Faraday
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But… — Frederick Soddy
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be… — John Herschel
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though… — Aristotle
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. — Oscar Wilde
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to… — Charles Darwin
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is… — James Madison
He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a… — Kim Edwards
How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't… — Boris Becker
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do.… — Geena Davis
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. — Hector Hugh Munro
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A… — Alexander Hamilton
It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket,… — Amarillo Slim

Who Wrote These Hardly Quotes

1,098 authors contributed a total of 1,520 Hardly Quotes, led by these top contributors: