Mainly Quotes

555 quotes by 466 authors

Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as… — Unknown Author
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly… — Mark Twain
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct… — John von Neumann
It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent… — Karl Popper
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as… — R. D. Laing
I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits. — Dave Barry
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a… — Bertrand Russell
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota
[P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly… — G. H. Hardy
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take… — Paul Dirac
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point. — Abraham Lincoln
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and… — Bertrand Russell
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young. — A.C. Grayling
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. — Dalai Lama
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology… — Lionel Tiger
They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons.… — Fritz Zwicky

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