Instance Quotes

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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the… — William Buckland
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell… — Shirley M. Tilghman
Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they… — Niels Henrik Abel
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of… — Paul Halmos
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation,… — Max Bill
A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis… — Wolfgang Smith
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules… — Peter Atkins
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us… — Susan Sontag
Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
When it comes to your life's work, you can't take yourself too seriously. Even Jesus had an occasional joke with the boys, take walking on… — Deacon Jones
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some… — Anthony Storr
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce… — Charles Caleb Colton
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than… — James Madison
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry,… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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