Transmission Quotes

122 quotes by 113 authors

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will… — Jerome Bruner
We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards… — Richard Burr
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,… — Charles Darwin
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking,… — John Dewey
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of… — Linus Pauling
The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and… — Swami Abhedananda
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a… — Charles Nicolle
I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would suggest: "Alcohol will… — George Carlin
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission… — Larry Lujack
We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with… — Margaret Sanger
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts… — Roman Vishniac
Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun… — Timothy Ball
Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet… — John Foley
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals… — Thomas Jefferson
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the… — Sol LeWitt
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers… — Whoopi Goldberg
...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months — Margaret Chan

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113 authors contributed a total of 122 Transmission Quotes, led by these top contributors: