Geoffrey West Quotes

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Money
  • Pain
  • Child

• When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Down
  • Work Hard

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Couple

• Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • She
  • Parents
  • Education

• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Always
  • Changing

• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Respect
  • Understand
  • Try

• I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Politics

• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Complacent

• It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Thing
  • Analysis
  • Itself

• The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • May

• The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Look

• You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Color

• I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Society
  • Picture
  • Beauty

• First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one bad night'. Like a marriage that's good, and then one bad thing happens, and you never talk to each other again.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Bad
  • True

• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • God
  • Kindness

• It is hard to separate the art from the artist.

  

  Juice Wrld
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Separate

• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • Science
  • Education

• Hilda was philosophical. That means you think everything will turn out for best, according to my father. Or if you don't actually think it, you pretend to.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Father
  • Everything
  • Philosophical

• Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.

  

  Geoffrey West
  • Science
  • Law