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.

Art Buchwald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Aristotle

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Stephen Jay Gould

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Kristen Johnston

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

Judith Light

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

Joan Didion

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

Darren Shan

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Nick Lowe

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

Mark Twain

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

Jackie Kennedy

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

Ethel Waters

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

William Cowper

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

William Hazlitt

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

William Davis

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Yann Martel

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

Ellen Glasgow

Dignity is an anachronism.

Rowan Williams

These people are not being left to be victims. They are being helped, trained and given back their dignity and freedom,

Julie Morris

I want the whole world to watch it. I thought it taught so many things about dignity and respect.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.