William Cecil Dampier Quotes

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

William Cecil Dampier

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• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Success

• When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Music
  • Friends

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Best
  • Always
  • Person

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Happy
  • Church

• I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Training
  • Athlete
  • Week

• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Pretty
  • Doubt
  • Silly

• The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Job
  • Divorce

• All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Should
  • Simplicity

• Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Words
  • Control

• Hell is paved with good intentions.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good

• I was encouraged by that, to get there and slide and know my leg was O.K. after that.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Encourage
  • Leg
  • Slide

• The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Knowledge
  • Ugly

• Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Practice
  • Body
  • Research

• Now, personally, I'd have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we're the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn't have one.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Small Town
  • Police Department
  • Carrier

• There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

  

  William Cecil Dampier
  • Knowledge
  • Research
  • Contact