Edwin Boring Quotes
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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I hate birthdays.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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Give peace a chance.
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There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
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Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Can't is the cancer of happen.
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We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.
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Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
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Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
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The hand is where the mind meets the world.
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If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.
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Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.
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We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe.
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The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
