"That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public……" — Thomas Huxley
"That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion."
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Thomas Huxley
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195 Quotes by Thomas Huxley
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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts…
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More Calculation Quotes
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
— Sun Tzu
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the…
— Francis Bacon
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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics]…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific…
— John Herschel
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything…
— Nikola Tesla
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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come…
— Garry Kasparov
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If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it…
— Nikola Tesla
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Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation,…
— Camille Flammarion
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