Thesis Quotes

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Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his… — Rollo May
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet… — Yann Martel
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no… — Alain de Botton
It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases… — Hans Selye
It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes. — Karl Popper
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics… — Simon Jenkins
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It… — Dick Morris
...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate,… — George Orwell
Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you… — David Eddings
In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to… — Andrei Sakharov
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate… — Derek Bok
A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of… — Gerhard Richter
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science… — Benjamin Disraeli
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted,… — Clifford Allbutt
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does… — Upton Sinclair
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put… — Andrew Greeley
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia,… — Jon Ronson
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing… — Megan Abbott
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being… — I. Bernard Cohen

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