Isaac Newton Quotes
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Quotes to Explore
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
