Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

David Hockney

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Alan Kay

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Arthur Eddington

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Diana Wynne Jones

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

Lee H. Hamilton

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Thomas Gray

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thom Mayne

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Simone Signoret

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

Beth Henley

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Charles Beichman

We don't know anything about planets around very young stars because the radial velocity method doesn't work with them,

Arthur Conan Doyle

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for

Arthur Conan Doyle

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

Laurie R. King

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

Jason Williams

My influences are Priest Holmes and Walter Payton,