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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Probability is the very guide of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Ashleigh Brilliant

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Robert Toombs

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Tove Jansson

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Robin Morgan

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Bob Taylor

I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.

Narciso Rodriguez

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Rick Vanhoy

Darius is stocky. And he's not an ordinary fullback because he can run right by you.

Nelson Mandela

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

Chris Simms

I would say our will to win, our belief in ourselves when the game is getting tight. Last year, we were in a lot of close games but for whatever reason we just didn't find ways to win them.

Mike Massucci

I always believed we would have a good team, but that's all it was, a belief. Tonight is proof that we can be a good team. This is more like what I expected. We have a team that can play fast, and we have a lot of players who can contribute.

George Balle

He did not suffer from a poor education; he suffered from the belief that he had a poor education.

Jim Smith

He considered himself an anarchist, and his core beliefs were developing and supporting people's right to freedom.

Tim Davis

Gupta's work interests me because I think we share something in the sense that we have a belief in the language of our chosen materials and objects.

Raymond Mason

I think the general belief is it will create a very powerful currency and trading capability, and you're going to have to be in the euro to be part of it,

Lea DeLaria

What do you mean, you "Don't believe in homosexuality"? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

Jim Caron

There is a growing belief that the Fed will just keep hiking rates.

Tom Daschle

There is no erosion of that support, ... There is extraordinary belief that the vice president and Senator Lieberman have conducted themselves in a way that makes us very proud.