Terminology Quotes

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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. — Italo Calvino
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking… — Kurt Lewin
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like… — John Updike
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to… — Scott Lively
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such… — Asma Barlas
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with… — Bill Bryson
Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have… — Adam Schiff
Even if any given terminology is aÂ reflectionÂ of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be aÂ selectionÂ of reality; and… — Kenneth Burke
People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need… — Neal Boortz
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in… — Leonard Ravenhill
We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry… — Leonard Ravenhill
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs. — Peter Hammill
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this… — Medard Boss
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe… — Robert Nozick
There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all… — Thomas Berry
It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first… — Andre Breton

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