Specified Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how… — Charles Darwin
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,… — Sissela Bok
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject… — Otto Robert Frisch
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with… — Allan Sandage
Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised… — James Madison
I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe,… — James Madison
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not… — Thomas Jefferson
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction,… — Edith Wharton
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. — Philip Greenspun
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain… — Alexander Hamilton
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more… — James Madison
Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives -… — Charles Hodge
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit. — Emile M. Cioran
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at… — John B. Watson
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real… — Joseph Heller
What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization -- is an adequately… — Elinor Ostrom
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing.… — Ernest Gold
There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild,… — Christopher Hitchens
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. — Marvin Minsky

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