The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Woollcott , US author (1887 – 1943)
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. Great short quote and quotation by: Menander , Greek comic dramatist (342 BC – 292 BC)
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. Great short […]
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. Great short […]
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Russell , US comedian, political commentator, & satirist (1932 – )
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Russell , US comedian, political commentator, & satirist (1932 – )
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. Great short quote and quotation by: Claude Levi-Strauss ,
Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Great short quote and quotation by: Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934 , US (Serbian-born) electrical inventor (1857 – 1943)
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George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. Great short quote and quotation by: George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866 , English novelist (1819 – 1880)
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words. Great short quote and quotation by: South ,
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. Great short quote and quotation by: Norman Thomas , US socialist politician (1884 – 1968)