Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Sir Eddington

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Rupert Sheldrake

Well, I'm always hoping to hear from interested chemists and protein chemists, because I'd love for these experiments to be done properly.

Alfred Russel Wallace

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

Edward Forbes

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

Humphrey Davy

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Humphrey Davy

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Humphrey Davy

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Nate Kaeding

I was lucky enough to get it loosened up (thanks to a medicinal shot). It was definitely there, but I could still kick on it. With some good treatment on it, it shouldn't be any problem.

Chad Brown

I was in Pittsburgh and they let Rod Woodson go. There were posters that (read) 'Rod Is God' inside the stadium. If a team can let God go, they'll definitely let me go, too.

Paul Davies

Knowing there's a guy right there that's going to do all the dirty work and do anything he can definitely helps my game. I know it helps everyone else's, too.

Jeff Parker

Kevin's first run was huge, ... It definitely swung the momentum our way for sure. We've got athletes, and when you have athletes, you have the luxury of hitting the big play at any given time.

Dylan Ball

Kids can be cruel. They definitely made fun of me.

Mark Williams

I wouldn't say I'm obsessed. I do other things with my life, ... but monitoring the weather is definitely my passion, the way other people have golfing or gardening.

Sidney Crosby

Jack Johnson is my roommate and he's been going to a few meetings, ... It's definitely a nerve-racking time and I feel for him a little bit.

Renee Miller

I would say Rosary is definitely top three in the state. We got our butts kicked. We did have some good swims and some not so good swims.

John Tucker

I would say it's taking things we find in our everyday life and mixing these things to get structures. He's trying to get us to see those things in a different light. It's definitely different.

Roberto Unger

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Jim Marchiony

There will be a section for every sport that ever fielded a varsity team, whether it's still in existence or not. Every sport -- men's and women's -- will be represented.

Rick Costa

This leave has been in existence for as long as I can remember. This is not anything new.

Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Gerry Gilmore

These are the first properties other than existence that we've been able determine.

Saul Bellow

There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thinking we have to do and all the judgments we have to make. It's the price of freedom: make the judgments, make the mental calls,

Alex Miller

What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished... It is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing.

Andre Breton

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Anne Carson

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Rod Stewart

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

John Harrison

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

Whitley Strieber

The visitors tell me that there is an organic quality in our skulls that dampens telepathy, and that this is going to fade.

Courtney Taylor

Our whole sound is too organic and warm. I'd be very surprised if we had a big hit.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Theodore Dreiser

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.