Isolated Quotes

478 quotes by 423 authors

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive… — John William Draper
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world.… — Morris Kline
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins… — Ronald Reagan
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature. — Ernst Mayr
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they are isolated from… — Pope Benedict XVI
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or… — Eckhart Tolle
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had… — Jean Alesi
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of… — Iannis Xenakis
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — Muhammad Yunus
Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose… — Lynne McTaggart
For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected… — Theodor Boveri
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. — Pierre Duhem
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil… — Gerald Holton
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but… — Andre Gide
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range… — Martin Puryear
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and… — Diane Abbott
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development. — Clifford Allbutt
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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