What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. ~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. ~By Theodor Adorno ~
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing. ~By Boris Becker ~
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ~By Kenneth Clark ~
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. ~By Marguerite Duras ~
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. ~By Poul Anderson ~
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. ~By John Badham ~
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. ~By Frank Herbert ~
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. ~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. ~By Irwin Edman ~
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. ~By Ashley Montagu ~
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. ~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been. ~By Anthony Holden ~
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature. ~By Richard Owen ~
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. ~By John Dewey ~
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. ~By Gregory Bateson ~
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. ~By Audrey Hepburn ~
Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ~By Frank O'Hara ~
You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it. ~By Mathias Rust ~
Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean? ~By Jason Schwartzman ~
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. ~By Vernor Vinge ~
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. ~By Bela Lugosi ~
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken. ~By Paul Nurse ~
I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests. ~By Dick Murphy ~
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. ~By Dave Barry ~
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. ~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic? ~By Alva Noto ~
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. ~By Jean Piaget ~
Theology is the logic of the Devil. ~By Jose Bergamin ~
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. ~By George P. Baker ~
Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain. ~By Steven Bochco ~
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ~By Nicola Abbagnano ~
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. ~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. ~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative. ~By Adrienne Rich ~
In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines. ~By Michael Behe ~
The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values. ~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. ~By Orhan Pamuk ~
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites. ~By Ralph Chaplin ~
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing. ~By Marvin Bower ~
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. ~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. ~By Marshall McLuhan ~
I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do. ~By Joe Klein ~
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. ~By Alvin Toffler ~
Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. ~By Joanna Trollope ~
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year. ~By James Lovelock ~
Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. ~By Mary Douglas ~
Better to be without logic than without feeling. ~By Charlotte Bronte ~
The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. ~By Edward Sapir ~
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change. ~By James Cash Penney ~
But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer. ~By Steven Hatfill ~
We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. ~By Richard Lugar ~
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes. ~By Franz Boas ~
I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity. ~By Jim Capaldi ~
Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite. ~By Alex D. Linz ~
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! ~By E. M. Forster ~
The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. ~By Michael Kinsley ~
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. ~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress. ~By Bruce Babbitt ~
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ~By Maimonides ~
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future. ~By Joseph Needham ~
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. ~By Charles Sturt ~
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. ~By Philip Emeagwali ~
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ~By Jean Baudrillard ~
I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States. ~By John Poindexter ~
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. ~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. ~By Elizabeth George ~
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons. ~By Zig Ziglar ~
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations. ~By Ernst Zundel ~
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera. ~By Robert Carlyle ~
I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology. ~By Dan Lipinski ~
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. ~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. ~By Sigmund Freud ~
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. ~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. ~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue. ~By Clifford Geertz ~
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation. ~By George E. Brown, Jr. ~
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ~By Allen Tate ~
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. ~By Aldrich Ames ~
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much. ~By Marisa Tomei ~
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. ~By Alan Dean Foster ~
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. ~By Dave Barry ~
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. ~By Kim Il Sung ~
He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them. ~By Jamie Muir ~
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles. ~By David Suzuki ~
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one. ~By Pete Rozelle ~
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. ~By Edward Irving ~
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves. ~By Tipper Gore ~
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~By Dale Carnegie ~
Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work. ~By Michael Nesmith ~
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. ~By Aldous Huxley ~
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. ~By Rita Mae Brown ~
He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't? ~By Paul Darrow ~
Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth. ~By William E. Simon ~
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. ~By A. J. Muste ~
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us. ~By Philip Zimbardo ~
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me. ~By Barbara Kruger ~
We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. ~By William J. Perry ~
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