Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Calvin Coolidge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Charles Darwin

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Janet Suzman

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

Hanya Yanagihara

The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Aristotle

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jane D. Hull

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Carine Roitfeld

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

Cameron Russell

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Charles Bukowski

there's no defense except all the errors made

Whit Cornell

Errors and strikeouts at the plate are what hurt us. But they're something we can fix.

Corey Held

We should be set and we shouldn't make errors for the next three games. We'll work on fielding tomorrow.

Stand Watie

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Rollo May

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Maria Montessori

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

Nancy Friday

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.