Preliminary Quotes

73 quotes by 67 authors

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was… — Johannes V. Jensen
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour,… — Henri Poincare
Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers. — Bill Hayden
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a… — Rudolph A. Marcus
It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation. — Michel de Certeau
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . .… — Ambrose Bierce
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their… — Wolfgang Kohler
I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a… — Michael Arad
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary… — Georges Cuvier
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it:… — Paul Tillich
When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it… — Kevin J. Anderson
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more… — Herbert Spencer
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at… — Pericles
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much… — John Cage
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. — Irving Babbitt
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious… — Bertrand Russell
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the… — Irvin S. Cobb
If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week… — Olafur Eliasson

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