Premature Quotes
132 quotes by 117 authors
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
— Aaron Burr
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the…
— Isabel Allende
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If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having…
— Jean Rostand
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I went to a meeting for premature ejactulators. I left early.
— Jack Benny
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our…
— Karl Popper
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
— Jean Rostand
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a…
— George Boole
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Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.
— John Quinton
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To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and…
— Paul Driessen
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There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5 billion.
— Tony Blair
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I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone…
— Julie Burchill
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Girls say they like a sensitive man, but then they complain about my premature ejaculation.
— Tom Sims
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Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic
— Michael Dokes
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Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.
— Ruth Wilson
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I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.
— Mary Crosby
Who Wrote These Premature Quotes
117 authors contributed a total of 132 Premature Quotes, led by these top contributors: