Colin Maclaurin Quotes

Those who have not imbibed the prejudices of philosophers, are easily convinced that natural knowledge is to be founded on experiment and observation.

Colin Maclaurin

• Knowledge
• Observation
• Founded

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Changes

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Bond

• You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Men
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Support

• Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• The enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare of the human species.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Diversity

• Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Knowledge

• In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Text

• Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • History

• I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Country
  • Knowledge

• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Fun
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Dream
  • Knowledge
  • Contradiction

• If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • You
  • Control
  • Tax

• As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Writing
  • College
  • Kid

• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Praise
  • Enjoying

• Those who have not imbibed the prejudices of philosophers, are easily convinced that natural knowledge is to be founded on experiment and observation.

  

  Colin Maclaurin
  • Knowledge
  • Observation
  • Founded