Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Harris

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

David Frum

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

Chad Harbach

It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.

Bob Bennett

With this bill, we shift the focus to where it belongs, not on controlling speech ... but on the question of to whom you may be beholden in order to get the money to do that. That's where the focus should be.

William Hague

He wants to create a House of Cronies, beholden to him alone, ... constitutional vandalism.

Casey Neistat

Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.

Robert Shiller

Little will be done to stop these things if public figures consider themselves beholden to some overarching efficient markets principle and do not even recognize over-speculation as a real phenomenon.

Barry Scheck

Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the prosecutor or the defense.

Blake Mycoskie

One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way are many times beholden to their boards of directors, to 'sell' ideas to a team.

Kirby Green

Groundwater withdrawals really don't respect our district boundary lines.

Kirby Green

Ground-water withdrawals really don't respect our district boundary lines.

Peter DeFazio

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, the relatively clear boundary (a steep ridgeline and road) ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight,

Nitin Gupta

If they can cross the boundary into the cell phone, satellite radio will have cleared the last major hurdle. MP3s are nice but the penetration of cell phones is phenomenal, and if they can get the technology down to the size where they can integrate it into a cell phone, it will be a huge step toward the mainstream for satellite radio.

Dan Storck

I didn't want the boundary study at first, but I realize we need it. The longer we wait, the longer it'll take to have an impact on the school. There's no good time for a boundary study, it's the most difficult thing any of us can go through.

Ruth Winstrom

We're starting to look more toward the boundary of Palm Springs.

Theodor Mommsen

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.

John Ortberg

There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.

Dean Tistadt

The only way to provide relief to the most students would be to do an administrative boundary change and move any new students into Halley Elementary School. It's the only thing we can think of that we can do and have changes in place for this school year.

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Dean Wareham

They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

Richard P. Feynman

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Dan Shechtman

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

Barbara Thompson

LWS is kind of science with an edge.

Carol Licko

Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.

Dennis Flanagan

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Democritus

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Democritus

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I was pretty bad. I totally understand the decision.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Abby Wambach

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Murray Walker

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Howard Davidowitz

Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.