Obvious Quotes

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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious:… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for… — Edwin Land
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements… — Alexander Hamilton
The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious. — Robert Kiyosaki
It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out. — Robert Goulet
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance… — Richard Dawkins
The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious… — Vivian Gornick
President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He has the gift… — David E. Sorensen
We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on… — Joseph Glanvill
It's so obvious The Weather Channel is pro hurricane. Fair and balanced my ass. — Jim Gaffigan
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption — C. West Churchman
About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed… — J. C. R. Licklider
It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom… — Ben Moreell
In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of… — Grote Reber
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things… — Gerald Holton
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your… — Nick Woodman

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