History Quote by Steven Vogel Download Open image ““Reductionism describes the scheme, and it has a long history of successes.”” — Steven Vogel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Success
“Vienna School merges with the thought of Ayn Rand. She believed that competition was the meaning of life itself; Hitler said much the same… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“It was a technique as old as the bazaar, the willingness to walk away from a deal.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. — William Osler Copy Share Image
“It lasted for a long time, I believe." "A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
“Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“In the past a theory could get by on its beauty; in the modern world a successful theory has to work for a living.” — Howard Wainer Copy Share Image
“A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.” — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
“did of controlled burnings by the native population before the arrival of the first British explorers.29 And the history of that native population is… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“Electrons and photons are still worse. In graduate school I roomed for a time with a particle physicist. He ended one attempt to explain… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“I’m not even much of a gardener—my contribution to the family garden consists mainly of compost.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“the majority of our most serious environmental problems start right here, at home, and if we are to solve these problems, we need an… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“as I intend, you should begin to look with different eyes at your immediate surroundings, seeing not just leaves but yourself and everything around… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“I knew about viscosity, but I’d heard about it in a course in physical chemistry, not in physics. Step by step, the questions I… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“This book intends to make the case for explanation by reduction to physics and mechanical engineering, to this alternative realm of explanation: not to… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“The search for predictive and explanatory general rules—that’s the crux of our game.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“Recognize, though, that graphs and equations provide an economical and effective way of expressing things that torture the tongue.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“science isn’t about the things but about the relationships among the things.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
