Provisional Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they… — A. R. Ammons
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical… — Nevill Francis Mott
The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real… — Francois Jacob
The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars.… — Amy Poehler
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that. — Karl Marx
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… — George Eliot
This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The… — Harry S. Truman
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. — Stephen Jay Gould
In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover… — James Cameron
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. — Louis de Broglie
My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. — Jack Higgins
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that… — Francois Jacob
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional — Trinh T. Minh-ha
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a… — Michael McCaul
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in the Tao, all… — Laozi
In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace… — David Ben-Gurion
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people… — Sam Lipsyte

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