David Hestenes Quotes

Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

David Hestenes

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• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Problems

• I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Beautiful
  • Way
  • Ideas

• Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Human
  • Will

• In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Always
  • Language
  • Learn

• We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.

  

  Rand Beers
  • May
  • Driving
  • Suicide

• Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Why
  • Singing
  • Language

• For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Men
  • Death

• You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Find

• What else could he possibly have done? What choices did he ever have?

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Done
  • Choices

• An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Failure

• It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

  

  Betty Smith
  • World
  • Good
  • School

• I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Women
  • Business
  • Father

• In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Presidential
  • Interview
  • Candidate

• Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Read

• I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Joy

• Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.

  

  Nicholas Hoult
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Present

• What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered.

  

  Gavin de Beer
  • Patterns
  • Genes
  • Mechanism

• Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Dream
  • Should
  • Ifs

• Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

  

  David Hestenes
  • Scientists
  • Physical
  • Patterns