Units Quotes

403 Units quotes by 365 unique authors

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 family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. — Eleanor Roosevelt
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -… — Clay Shirky
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical… — Werner Heisenberg
Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to… — Tim Field
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white… — Terry Pratchett
The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that… — Theodor Schwann
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an… — Unknown Author
Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force units.… — Unknown Author
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in… — Heber Doust Curtis
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Unknown Author
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such… — Unknown Author
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has… — Noam Chomsky
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural.… — Davis McCaughey
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for… — Richard P. Feynman
...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data. — Andrey Illarionov
This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation, of Indian tribes… — George H. W. Bush
We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus. — Dustin Hoffman
It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to… — Trent Franks
He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up,… — D. H. Lawrence
It is not wrong or bigoted to believe American society is stronger and that the family unit is better served when marriage is between a… — Bill O'Reilly
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of… — Henry R. Towne
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network… — Mary Parker Follett

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