Counterbalancing In Experiments Quotes & Sayings

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. — Booth Tarkington

You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It's something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss. — Jostein Gaarder

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal public asylum in London, it had accepted dangerous and insane paupers as 'objects of charity' for centuries, and was proud of the claim that it had never turned anyone away. — Mike Jay

What? -- RICHARD M NIXON — Thomas Pynchon

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other. — Norbert Wiener

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things. — Alistair Begg

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments. — David Rockwell

I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend. [on an upcoming trip to Denmark] — George W. Bush

Without commenting on the legal aspects, which I'm not capable of doing, those are lifestreams and there are other companies that have done similar things. That makes me angry personally, not because of the money, but because of the deliberate failure to acknowledge work that we would have made freely available as academics. — David Gelernter

I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters's car, — Jim Butcher

And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses. — David Foster Wallace

No relationship, Chrissy, I don't care how truly, madly, deeply it is ... No relationship survives on hope. It's forgiveness that keeps it alive. — Chrissy Anderson

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided. — Mason Cooley