Peculiarity Quotes

39 quotes by 36 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If it doesnâ€™t have ambiguity, donâ€™t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photographyâ€”the mendacity of photographyâ€”itâ€™s got to have some kind… — Sally Mann
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
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
A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used. — William Feather
Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind. — Swami Vivekananda
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
It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man. — Victor Hugo
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
... 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
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
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. — John Stuart Mill

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