Properties Quotes

238 Properties quotes by 190 unique authors

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains,… — Richard Dawkins
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. — Thomas Jefferson
The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't… — Bill Bryson
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder. — Vera Nazarian
L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who… — Dennis Lehane
I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless… — Jennifer Egan
Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life;… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or… — Steven Pinker
If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it… — Jonathan Swift
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to… — Henri Nouwen
Surrender is not that you should give up your family, give up your children, or give up your houses and homes and your properties. Surrendering… — Nirmala Srivastava
What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to… — Baron d'Holbach
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which… — Voltaire
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties… — Bertrand Russell
Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It… — Huston Smith
We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine… — Miguel Nicolelis
Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties. — Paul Stamets
You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy. — Miranda Hart
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy… — David Suzuki
Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour. — Yotam Ottolenghi
When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction.… — Alan Guth
Anyone can see that, say, superheroes and vampires perform well at the box office. That in turn can trigger competitive bidding situations and soaring fees… — Anita Elberse
With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level… — David Weinberger
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties. — Noam Chomsky

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