Rather Quotes
10955 quotes by 6380 authors
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to…
— Lucretius
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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science…
— Wernher von Braun
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These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body.…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but…
— Karl Popper
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Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"…
— Carl Sagan
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their…
— Wilfred Trotter
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although…
— Linus Pauling
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You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from…
— Robert Runcie
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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
— Peter Drucker
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The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I'd rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
— Tony Hsieh
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Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging,…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than judge,…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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