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.

Lady Gaga

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

John Dee

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

Lord Byron

Who then will explain the explanation?

Lord Byron

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

John Archibald Wheeler

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

John Fowles

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

Jane Austen

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Roland Barthes

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

Gaston Bachelard

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Gregory Bateson

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The description is not the described.

Jim Garcia

We're only as good as that plate of nachos or that plate that's going out right now. If they are going to wait an hour and a half, it better be damn good. It better be exceptional, and they better be entertained while they wait.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to take it down -- take the damn thing down,

Melvin Spears

I don't give a damn what they do. My players' lives are more important than any damned football game.

John Tortorella

I don't give a damn about the Leafs. We're not going to look over our shoulder.

Sonny Terry

In them days I just as soon died-except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

Sam Ervin

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Denny Green

I'm just surprised I'm not doing a better damn job. The job I thought I could do, I've not been able to do right now. And I'm not happy about it.

John Fogerty

I'm sorry to say we're doing the same damn thing again,

Robert Novak

I'm going to be 75 years old in February, and I was working too damn hard. I'm ready for a softer schedule. It won't be anything like what I was doing at CNN.