Modified Quotes

129 quotes by 119 authors

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate… — Norman Borlaug
The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime. — William J. Clinton
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with its… — Max Delbruck
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with… — Richard Branson
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. — Alexander Hamilton
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science,… — Adolf Hitler
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified… — James Bryant Conant
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by… — Aristotle
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in… — Barack Obama
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. — Elliott Chaze
Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to… — Rudolf Virchow
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not… — Charles Scott Sherrington
[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of… — John Wansbrough
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived… — John Harvey Kellogg
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge.… — Austin Bradford Hill
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by… — Adam Sedgwick
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in… — Mark Twain
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. — Thomas Jefferson

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