Textbooks Quotes
160 Textbooks quotes by 142 unique authors
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence,…
— James Surowiecki
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I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not…
— Thomas A. Edison
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History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
— Henry Ford
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I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all…
— Robert Huber
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Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb…
— William Easterly
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A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian…
— David M. Raup
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If you’re going to be an entrepreneur… it’s not all textbook. It’s gut feeling, it’s intuition, it’s a feeling you have that you can do…
— Wayne Huizenga
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Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard…
— James W. Loewen
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
— Joshua Lederberg
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I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.
— Joshua Lederberg
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I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is…
— Gideon Gono
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The word detox does not appear in the main textbook on cancer or the main medical textbook...the word in medicine refers to heroin addicts and…
— Ralph W. Moss
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Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life — don't let the moments slip through your…
— Richie Sambora
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We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become…
— Fisher Ames
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Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
— James W. Loewen
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Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm…
— Robert Ballard
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Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia;…
— Ashraf Ghani
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To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that…
— Janusz Korczak
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I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced…
— Don Pendleton
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Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow…
— Tim Tharp
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The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.
— Noah Webster
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's…
— Herman Melville
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For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond.…
— Max Perutz
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When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat…
— Malcolm X
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Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook
— Richie Sambora
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