System Quotes

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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness… — Ella Maillart
I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about… — Charles Barkley
The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people… — William Cobbett
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings. — Don Meyer
But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down,… — Shaquille O'Neal
Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point… — Kevin Garnett
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me… — Hakeem Olajuwon
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow
The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our… — Karl Popper
If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together. Non-cooperation.… — David Icke
It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide the five senses… — Gary Zukav
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds… — James Clerk Maxwell
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience… — Norbert Wiener
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine… — George Wald
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of… — James Clerk Maxwell
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and… — Isaac Asimov
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the… — Louis Pasteur
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that… — Bertrand Russell

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