David Landes Quotes

It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

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• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Example
  • Prejudice

• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Done
  • Ideas

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Criticism
  • Made
  • Prejudice

• Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Benefits
  • Street
  • Trees

• I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Literature
  • Pride
  • Books

• 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Period
  • Pride
  • Prejudice

• I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Media

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Worst
  • Prejudice

• Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Like
  • Prejudice
  • Minority

• I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Shopping
  • Evolution
  • Cleaning

• Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • God
  • Law
  • Justice

• To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Feeling
  • Education
  • Woman

• Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Art
  • True
  • Freedom

• I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Reality
  • Respect
  • Economic

• It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

  

  Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Evolution

• Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Community
  • Easy
  • Prejudice

• A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Culture
  • Should
  • Benefits

• To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Important
  • Inspired

• That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Long
  • Education
  • Teaching

• More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.

  

  Karl Taylor Compton
  • America
  • Progress
  • Achievement

• It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

  

  David Landes
  • Evolution
  • Benefits
  • Prejudice