Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Quotes

Science is not the mere collection of facts, which are infinitely numerous and mostly uninteresting, but the attempt by the human mind to order these facts into satisfying patterns.

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

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• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
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• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  

  Iris Chang
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• I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Life
  • Mind
  • My Life

• It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Exploration

• The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Small
  • Effort

• If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Science
  • Change
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• I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

  

  J. R. Bourne
  • Mind
  • Opportunity
  • Playing

• When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Fight

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
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• I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
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• I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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  • Up
  • Different

• Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
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  • Mind
  • Kids

• I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

  

  Payne Stewart
  • Mind

• Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become a graffiti artist so I could have somebody else tell me what to do. If you're the type who gets sentimental about people scribbling over your stuff, I suggest graffiti is probably not the right hobby for you.

  

  Banksy
  • People
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• Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Love
  • Promise

• If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.

  

  Madame de La Fayette
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• Science is not the mere collection of facts, which are infinitely numerous and mostly uninteresting, but the attempt by the human mind to order these facts into satisfying patterns.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Facts