Laymen Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious… — Roger Bacon
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? — Richard Courant
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to… — Georges Bernanos
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts… — Amos Tversky
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary… — Felix Frankfurter
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another… — Virchand Gandhi
The entire force of the Conciliar revolt comes from the fact that it has apparently been imposed by the authority of the Church. How many… — John Lane
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by… — Hippocrates
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. — Robert A. Heinlein
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on… — Howard S. Becker
God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious,… — John Climacus
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to… — James Clerk Maxwell
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even… — Gerhard Richter
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations… — Rachel Carson
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen,… — John Wesley
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. — Rachel Carson
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land… — Aldo Leopold
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of… — Umberto Eco

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