Rapidity Quotes
57 quotes by 47 authors
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
— Charles Babbage
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Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.
— Sun Tzu
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of…
— Ernest Rutherford
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
— David Hume
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Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result…
— Nikola Tesla
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When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and…
— William James
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In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
— Richard Dawkins
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As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a…
— Richard Page
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If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I…
— Sun Tzu
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The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to…
— Noam Chomsky
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Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good…
— Charles Warren Stoddard
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Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in…
— Alexander Alekhine
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In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long…
— Sun Tzu
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent…
— Eric Sevareid
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It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man…
— Richard Jordan
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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just…
— Edward Bok
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I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact affecting…
— Eric Schmidt
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The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to…
— Jules Verne
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At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and…
— Sun Tzu
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