Widely Quotes
348 Widely quotes by 319 unique authors
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So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far…
— Mark Twain
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
— Albert Einstein
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The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those…
— Aristotle
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I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly…
— William James
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Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better…
— Ben Goldacre
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By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism…
— Martin Filler
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The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as…
— Jessica Valenti
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Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history -…
— Teju Cole
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Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more…
— Nikola Tesla
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The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
— Brian Greene
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Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips…
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged…
— Lisa Randall
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Use your voice on the local level where it has the potential to be more widely heard.
— Kirsten Gillibrand
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Coffee, one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, contains a plethora of naturally-occurring compounds, including several classes of antioxidants.
— Chris Kilham
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There are as many routes to writing success as there are writers who got there. My advice, however, applies across the board: read widely, learn…
— Therese Fowler
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I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make…
— Jack W. Szostak
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There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals,…
— John Tyler Bonner
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Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
— Herman Daly
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I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish…
— Drew Gilpin Faust
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Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.
— Bill Dedman
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It is essential that Christians understand this: Every Jew - secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing - fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is…
— Dennis Prager
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The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an…
— Barton Gellman
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It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.
— Anthony Fauci
Who Wrote These Widely Quotes
319 authors contributed a total of 348 Widely Quotes, led by these top contributors: