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.

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.'

Stephen Jay Gould

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Kim Williams

He could score out in probably four events. He's going to help us in quite a few running events as well.

Shyam Selvadurai

On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Bob Nicholson

He's already missed two major events because of the suspension and now he's back. He's off suspension and now he is eligible.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Jim Jones

He'll go back and forth between the two events. Basically, we're just using this indoor season to get him ready for the spring.

Walter Benjamin

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

Colin Brown

Going into the auditions, I really did not have any expectations, ... I thought it was impossible to get on the show.

Bruce Hoffman

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

Steven Goldstein

It is impossible to overestimate how much this victory means to our organization and the LGBT community.

Richelle Mead

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

Renny Harlin

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

Will Eisner

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

Rod Parsley

When you're really filled with the Holy Ghost it is impossible for those around you not to know it.

Rick Warren

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

Jorge Luis Borges

There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.