Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth L. Pike

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Daniel Bell

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Talcott Parsons

Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before.

Kelly Miller

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Kelly Miller

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

Talcott Parsons

Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question.

Talcott Parsons

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

Talcott Parsons

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Robert Zoellick

It is a very fluid situation ... the process of SLM coherence is proceeding.

David E. Price

The 2001 and 2003 tax measures are an unsettling reminder that unified party control is no guarantee of either coherence or fiscal responsibility.

Anna Lindh

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

Dana Spiotta

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

Kofi Annan

While many parts of the United Nations have been involved in the peace-building process, the system has lacked a dedicated entity to oversee the process, ensure its coherence or sustain it through the long haul.

Herbert Read

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

Michael Polanyi

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

Nicolas Davila

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

Kathy Whitworth

Passing and serving needs to improve, it just needs to become a little more consistent. But we don't really worry about it too much, it can be easily fixed.

P. Herbert

Some of us are like wheelbarrows - only useful when pushed, and very easily upset

P. Herbert

Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.

Kyle Cooper

Pipeline pressure swings and other timing issues can easily result in deviations from what is expected.

Christopher Molineux

Malice can be spotted more easily in eyebrows than in opinions

Jan Wald

I think they easily could go up to $76 without a lot of damage.

Charles Anson

I think there's a feeling that there but for the grace of God, these sort of problems could easily happen to your own children.

Jim Tressel

That was an emotional turnaround. It very easily could have been a 20-7 game, which is not an out of reach game. But it's a lot different than being down 17-14.

Jeremiah Gertler

That's the kind of question that can wind up very easily in the Supreme Court.

Source Unknown

Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Alan Thompson

I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.

Jason Keller

Kentucky may not be on the top of the international terror hit list, but grants like this make people safer on a day-to-day basis.

Todd Bailey

Basically, the grant is like a theory and we have to prove it.

Ollie Nutt

Basically, I realized that there were a lot of things that I would have liked to have done but I never really had the time. Working with volunteers, working on the grant processes. Now I have that time.

Vance Moss

Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use the basics.

Craig Lambert

I was hurting on pitching with two pitchers missing so I threw Grant out there and he did great -- he threw strikes and didn't give up any runs.

Elizabeth Thomas

Had we not participated in those meetings, DASA might not have granted certification.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Bill Hamilton

Our viewpoint is that this (opinion) is a total side-step of the will of the people.

Kevin Buckler

R.J. is better this year than ever. He's the total package.

Kevin Krewell

The 1-GHz was a total win for AMD.

Mark Chapman

I was under total compulsion, ... Dateline NBC.

Colleen Schreier

I was throbbing. (My hand) was totally swollen.

John Ashton

I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.

David Bryan

He is partially right and partially wrong, but mainly, he is totally wrong.

Murray Walker

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

Blaise Pascal

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.