Systematic Quotes
208 quotes by 183 authors
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[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay…
— Richard E. Blackwelder
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The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country
— John le Carre
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A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak…
— Babe Ruth
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Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature,…
— Northrop Frye
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There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates…
— Charles Ferguson
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I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case,…
— Matthew Yglesias
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Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.
— Gloria Allred
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Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as…
— David Dark
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You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have…
— Rajneesh
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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as…
— Albert Einstein
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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because…
— Israel Shenker
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic,…
— Francis Spufford
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I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use…
— Joshua Lederberg
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Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic,…
— Elizabeth Vargas
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The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips,…
— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is…
— George Mikes
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Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.
— Robert Ardrey
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The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
— Harold Pinter
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