Ahistorical Science Quotes & Sayings

The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure. — Geoff Davis

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. — Oscar Wilde

Clearly, we have entered a world very different from the world of modernity as previously described. The subject/object distinction has broken down. In this world, foundationalism is a washout;49 the old distinction between fact and opinion is disappearing from view. The quest for certainty, precision, and ahistorical knowledge of objective truth is judged impossible. "Truth" is not an objective entity; the classic dikes between fact and opinion are springing leaks. Of course, not all the tenets of modernity have been sacrificed. Irrationally, philosophical naturalism (for most advocates of this radical hermeneutics), still holds sway; moreover, I must still say something about the place of science in this new model. But some variation of what once held the status of a minority report advanced only by a few intellectuals is now adopted almost everywhere. — D. A. Carson

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens. — Lois Lowry

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure. — Robin Sieger

He felt his presence on earth being denied, even as he stood there. He was forbidden access; the past refused to admit him. It only reminded him that this arbitrary place, where he'd landed and made his life, was not his, — Jhumpa Lahiri

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes. — Orson Scott Card

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things. — Idries Shah

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists. — Helen Reddy

There's more than one path to immortality. — Maria Dahvana Headley

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity. — Frank B. Kellogg