Instances Quotes
211 quotes by 172 authors
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines…
— Hannes Alfven
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of…
— Pope Leo XIII
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All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered,…
— Edmund Burke
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Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless…
— George Washington
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The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes…
— Ronald Reagan
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You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very…
— Richard Dennis
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Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going…
— Eleanor Clift
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There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation…
— Richard M. Nixon
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The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing…
— Steven Spielberg
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The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos,…
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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