Relatively Quotes
484 quotes by 433 authors
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I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in…
— Dougray Scott
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Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can…
— Kurt Gödel
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Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.
— Frederick Sanger
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Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with…
— Carl Sagan
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Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are generally…
— Robert Wright
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Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation…
— Theodore Holmes Bullock
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For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.
— Robert C. Solomon
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Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly…
— Daniel C. Peterson
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Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.
— Guy Cook
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Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than…
— Marjory Stephenson
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It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine…
— Henry F. Schaefer, III
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Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially…
— Bill Bowerman
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It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love…
— H. Burke Peterson
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into…
— Eric Hoffer
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The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small…
— Al Gore
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Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I…
— Liam Neeson
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There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the…
— Paul Wolfowitz
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My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in]…
— Dick Cheney
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