The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
~By Northrop Frye ~
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
~By Dave Barry ~
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
~By Nick Clooney ~
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.
~By John G. D. Clark ~
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
~By Emma Goldman ~
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
~By Samuel Butler ~
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
~By Salma Hayek ~
The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.
~By Philippe Perrin ~
That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.
~By Alva Noto ~
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
~By Ellen Glasgow ~
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
~By George H. Mead ~
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
~By Roman Polanski ~
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
~By Kenzo Tange ~
In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
~By Rudolf Carnap ~
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
~By Gerald Vann ~
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
~By Annie Dillard ~
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
~By George C. Williams ~
One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent.
~By Alan Keyes ~
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
~By Maria Montessori ~
Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.
~By Drew Endy ~
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.
~By John Badham ~
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
~By Pierre Bourdieu ~
The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
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 ~
Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.
~By Brian Celio ~
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
~By Stephen Cole Kleene ~
It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.
~By Andreas Katsulas ~
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
~By Fred Hoyle ~
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff.
~By Stockard Channing ~
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
~By Jared Diamond ~
You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.
~By Colin Greenwood ~
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
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 ~
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
~By Vicente Fox ~
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
~By Daniel Burnham ~
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
~By Jack Kingston ~
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
~By Lawrence Clark Powell ~
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
~By Imre Lakatos ~
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
~By Ken Burns ~
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.
~By Jack Kingston ~
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
~By Li Ka Shing ~
While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.
~By Judd Nelson ~
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
~By Leon Kass ~
Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
~By Jiang Qing ~
I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.
~By Francesca Annis ~
The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.
~By John Fiske ~
You have to play the logic of a character.
~By Emily Watson ~
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
~By Francis Crick ~
I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.
~By Hans Blix ~
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
~By John Joly ~
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
~By Takeru Kobayashi ~
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.
~By Ron Kind ~
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
~By A. N. Wilson ~
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.
~By James P. Hogan ~
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
~By Tadao Ando ~
We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.
~By Alice Cooper ~
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
~By Sargent Shriver ~
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
~By Barry Humphries ~
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
~By Michel Gondry ~
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
~By James Dean ~
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
~By Jeff Miller ~
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
~By Michael Behe ~
Most of us take it for granted that the person performing our radiologic procedures is a competent professional. But the fact is, poorly trained individuals examine and treat thousands of patients in this country every day.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
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 ~
The logic of the heart is absurd.
~By Julie de Lespinasse ~
You see, one of the best ways to assure quality radiologic procedures is to require a basic level of education and skill for the people responsible for performing these procedures.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
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