Peculiarity Quotes
39 quotes by 36 authors
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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they…
— Aristotle
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The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social…
— Karl Pearson
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a…
— Svante Arrhenius
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A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
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I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the…
— Mark Twain
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It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result…
— James Madison
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It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and…
— Philip Jose Farmer
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If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to have some kind…
— Sally Mann
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A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite…
— Harold Davenport
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Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be…
— August Strindberg
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A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
— William Feather
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Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
— Thomas Malthus
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
— Victor Hugo
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PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is…
— Ambrose Bierce
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... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and…
— Edmund Blair Bolles
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Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling…
— Erich Fromm
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The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
— John Stuart Mill
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