Norwood Russell Hanson Quotes
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
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I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
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What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.
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The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
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I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
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When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
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I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
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In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
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Democrats denounce and abuse white people, and Republicans act embarrassed about having whites vote for them.
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Kobe was waiting for his game to get hot and it never happened, and we tried to force the ball into him and it cost us.
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All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
