Practical Quotes

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The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have… — Charles Babbage
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary… — Thomas Aquinas
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can… — Rene Descartes
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events. — Anthony Giddens
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also… — Anthony Giddens
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy… — John Frankenheimer
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't… — Marilyn Hacker
The Dutch are a very practical people. — Famke Janssen
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing… — Mike Judge
Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as… — Elizabeth Kostova
The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social… — Richard Shusterman
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical… — Aristotle
Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be… — Augustus William Hare
The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does… — Gilbert N. Lewis
My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life. — Diane Keaton
What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the â€œlife of the mindâ€: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for… — Gary Gutting
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my… — Susan B. Anthony
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in… — Arnold J. Toynbee
I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just… — Jeff Olson

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