Francis Darwin Quotes

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Francis Darwin

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• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

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• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

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• The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

  

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• Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

  

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• Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.

  

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• Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
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• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  

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• Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?

  

  Larry Brown
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• Ferrari gives you a special feeling.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Feeling
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• 'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

  

  Ed Markey
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• Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

  

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• As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
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  • Music

• Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • World
  • Children
  • Special

• I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

  

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• While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
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• I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
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• I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

  

  Charles Kuralt
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  • Time
  • School

• Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - I steer away from them. They're alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • Together

• As a country, we must come together to provide the training, certifications, and jobs that our veterans have earned and deserve.

  

  John T. Chambers
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  • Together
  • Training

• But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Art
  • Today
  • Religious

• There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

  

  Francis Darwin
  • Quality
  • Special
  • Exception