Thing Quotes

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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing… — Thomas Browne
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. — John Donne
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even… — G. H. Hardy
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. — Charles Kettering
I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a… — Michael Faraday
I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't… — Gertrude B. Elion
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because… — Charles Kettering
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind… — Romola Garai
This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid… — Terrell Owens
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks,… — Richard P. Feynman
Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and,… — Laurence Sterne
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as… — Samuel Johnson
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that… — Eudora Welty
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages… — Lawrence Block
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you… — Heraclitus
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. — Gerald Brenan
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. — Irving Layton
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. — Mike Tyson

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