Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote.… — Paul Klee
My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. — Paul Klee
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to… — Thomas Paine
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day… — Thomas Huxley
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men… — Max Wertheimer
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same… — Francis Bacon
You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the… — Michael Faraday
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can… — Bertrand Russell
Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the… — Andy Rooney
No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet's… — Fabien Cousteau
These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both. — Benjamin W. Chidlaw
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it… — Herbert York
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer… — Amelia B. Edwards
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most… — Montgomery Schuyler
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners… — Joseph Conrad
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… — Wendell Berry

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