John Wilkins Quotes
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
John Wilkins
Quotes to Explore
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
Natalie Maines
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
Barry Jenkins
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
Olga Kurylenko
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
Zubin Mehta
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I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
Nelly
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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
Bessie Smith
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
Iain Duncan Smith
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Which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.
Keith Moon
The Who
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
Dan Harmon
