Recalcitrant Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from…
— David Foster Wallace
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The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone…
— Niles Eldredge
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience…
— Abdus Salam
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Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
— Gerald Brenan
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A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place…
— Emily Oster
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I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown…
— Aldous Huxley
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Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him busy." So what's…
— John Flanagan
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I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I…
— Holly Black
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But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was…
— Robert Anton Wilson
Who Wrote These Recalcitrant Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Recalcitrant Quotes as follows: