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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

John Maynard Keynes

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Walter Savage Landor

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Erasmus Darwin

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

Audrey Tautou

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

C. S. Lewis

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

Charlie Munger

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Bettie Page

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells

Gaston Bachelard

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

Eva Zeisel

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

Cassandra Clare

There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.

John Ostrem

We will try to specify some requirements for the Linux kernel that OSDL and others will be creating, so as to make sure it meets our requirements for performance, power consumption, things like that, that are really needed to make a complete, viable phone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once