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Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural… — Unknown Author
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true. — Unknown Author
The Koran claims for itself that it is "mubeen," or clear. But if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or… — Gerd R. Puin
There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to… — Louis Agassiz
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post. — Albert Einstein
But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over… — Frederick Seitz
Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore… — Unknown Author
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words… — Maurice Sendak
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of… — Robert Bellarmine
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each… — James Madison
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — Jorge Luis Borges
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must… — Gregory Rabassa
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul… — Walter Benjamin
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems,… — Marjorie Garber
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and… — Jennifer Lawrence
Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life, — Taylor Swift
I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up.… — Klaus Kinski
People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it… — David Duchovny
I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can… — Michael Emerson
If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature… — Bill Nye
I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I… — Leelee Sobieski

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