Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Mitt Romney

I bathe in statistics.

Art Buchwald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Aristotle

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Charles Stevens

A lot of e-mail ought to be part of a knowledge management system, ... People used to be up to their eyeballs in paperwork -- now it's e-mail.

David Walsh

Advertisers follow eyeballs, and young eyeballs are now on video games.

Kelly Monaco

I feel like I won, but I'm going in as the underdog because the results were disputed, ... Until I prove otherwise, that's the situation. This is supposed to be all in fun. I don't want to scratch anyone's eyeballs out. But I'm competitive by nature.

Reza Aslan

Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

Sandra Bullock

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

William Makepeace Thackeray

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Mike Woods

Inspectors are going underground not only for enforcement but in an accident-prevention role. I think you can't rely on luck. You have to think smart.

Noah Baumbach

I rely on her. She's the first person I show any script to.

Joseph Addison

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

Mahatma Gandhi

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

Learned Hand

As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.