Instruments Quotes

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Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness. — Marie-Louise von Franz
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.… — Tycho Brahe
O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter… — Louis of Granada
Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start to see what… — Eyvind Earle
Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the… — Ole Hallesby
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their… — Charles A. Reich
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in… — Walter E. Williams
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research… — Hubertus Strughold
Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;… — E.S. Russell
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my… — Francois-Joseph Servois
Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may… — Irving Copi
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole. — J. Boone
He was Caesar and Pope in oÂne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without… — Benjamin Smith
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests… — Corinne Heline
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies… — Francis Crick
O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart… — John Henry Newman
And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? — Robert E. Sherwood
We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it.… — Chief Dan George

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