Modes Quotes

159 quotes by 133 authors

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. — Aristotle
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of… — Charles Babbage
Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head. — David Byrne
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window.… — Billy Campbell
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes… — Hannah Arendt
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion… — Fritjof Capra
All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. — Deepak Chopra
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are… — Bruce Schneier
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of… — Lord Kelvin
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical… — James Jeans
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form… — Benjamin Rush
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep… — Joseph Story
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds… — Irenaeus of Lyons
Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War… — Franklin C. Spinney
We have only two modes - complacency and panic. — James R. Schlesinger
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the… — Charles Hard Townes
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson

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