Elliott Sober Quotes

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

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• You should seek approval from yourself.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Yourself
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  • Approval

• I seek solutions, not battles.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Solutions
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  • Battles

• The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Army
  • Scientists
  • Skilled

• Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Men
  • Night
  • Italian

• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • May
  • Society

• If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Science
  • Christian

• Kids are natural scientists.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Kids
  • Natural
  • Scientists

• These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Trying
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  • Woman

• Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Humanity
  • Scientists
  • Global Warming

• Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Improvement

• If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Good
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  • Model

• Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Way
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• Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Scientists
  • Bunch
  • Romantics

• I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Want
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• Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Seek
  • Unforeseen
  • Impasse

• Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

  

  Aristotle
  • Facts
  • Cause
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• All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

  

  Riccardo Sabatini
  • Models
  • Particular
  • Southern

• I love being in bed almost as much as I love food.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Love
  • Food

• Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

  

  Bernard Joseph Saurin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Death

• There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Play
  • Shows

• It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

  

  Paul McEuen
  • Wall
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  • Atom

• Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

  

  Elliott Sober
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