Occupied Quotes

328 quotes by 301 authors

At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery,… — Robert Bunsen
The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to the great truth… — Guglielmo Marconi
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;… — Charles Caleb Colton
The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring.… — Rajneesh
I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied. — Al Geiberger
Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted… — John Bagot Glubb
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study… — Thomas Edward Thorpe
Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop? — Robert L. Park
The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of celestial… — Corinne Heline
Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate… — Thomas Pynchon
The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by… — William Buckland
At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied… — Paul Frolich
On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless… — Pete Gill
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns — Siegbert Tarrasch
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be… — Raymond Chandler
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. — Dorothee Solle
We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking… — Paul MacCready
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul… — Walter Benjamin

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