Obvious Quotes

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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the… — Reginald Fessenden
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much… — Linus Pauling
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is… — T. Harv Eker
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be… — William James
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression… — George Polya
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

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