Useful Quotes

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[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray… — Oswald Chambers
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because.… — John Charles Polanyi
Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the… — G. H. Hardy
[P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly… — G. H. Hardy
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors… — James Madison
Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend PelÃ© has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without… — Unknown Author
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. — Man Ray
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church? [...]… — Martin Luther
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The… — Henry Ward Beecher
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown… — Mark Epstein
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it… — Charlie Munger
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social… — Mikhail Gorbachev

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