James Bryant Conant Quotes
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.James Bryant Conant
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When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.
Victoria Osteen -
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln -
You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
Rand Paul -
I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram -
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh -
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh -
The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
Tania Raymonde -
There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
Kate Bush -
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
Randy Travis -
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
Sam Shepard -
The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
Gary Wright
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
Ted Lyons -
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
Daniel Bell -
There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.
Curtis LeMay -
We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.
Christopher Hitchens -
Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Young boys must be taught to play football without leading with or lowering their heads. Young players must be drilled over and over and over with Heads Up Football skills until that skill set becomes muscle memory and second nature.
Peter Berg -
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers -
I dedicate all my time to music. And I'm glad that it's paying off in some ways.
Benjamin Clementine -
It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
Evan Esar -
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
Carl Sagan -
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.
James Bryant Conant