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.

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.

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.

Troy Schaefer

We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer.

Terri Holmes

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Larry Kostelac

After a rough start, We changed some things up and did a better job of getting more body on them and that was a key to our defense.

Christina Ricci

Now my body is really womanly - a little too much so. It's something I can fall back on. When I don't know what else to do, I stick my chest out.

Cole Hamels

It was a light workout, but my body felt good. Everything went well.

Ron Johnson

I've been managing for 14 years. This is one of the tougher road trips I've been on, and I'm not even playing. I know how my body is feeling right now. I can only (guess) how these guys feel. For them to come out and play this well, I salute them.

Alfredo Mesa

This is still about a little boy who lost his mother at sea, trying to get to freedom. That's all that matters. He's being used as a trophy in Cuba. He's constantly surrounded by bodyguards and lives in a secluded neighborhood. That's not healthy for any child.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

An example of a trend that I tried that didn't exactly work out would be high-waisted jeans. We see them everywhere, but what I realized is that they don't work for every body type.

Mario Cuomo

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

Anton Chekhov

My holy of holies is the human body.

Billy Connolly

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.