To Determine A Waves Quotes & Sayings

The Mismeasure of Man treats one particular form of quantified claim about the ranking of human groups: the argument that intelligence can be meaningfully abstracted as a single number capable of ranking all people on a linear scale of intrinsic and unalterable mental worth. Fortunately - and I made my decision on purpose - this limited subject embodies the deepest (and most common) philosophical error, with the most fundamental and far-ranging social impact, for the entire troubling subject of nature and nurture, or the genetic contribution to human social organization. — Stephen Jay Gould

Always there has been an adventure just around the corner
and the world is still full of corners. — Roy Chapman Andrews

Money you haven't earned is not good for you. — Robert Maxwell

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature. — James Tiptree Jr.

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world. — Eglantyne Jebb

Don't pay attention to the people that hate you but why they do, as that's where you find your real value and uniqueness. — Daniel Marques

We runners are all a little nutty, but we're good people who just want to enjoy our healthy, primitive challenge. Others may not understand running, but we do, and we cherish it. That's our only message. — John J. Kelley

Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability ... they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque. — Arthur Koestler

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative. — Frederick Lenz

Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was. — Mark W. Boyer

I'm afraid too many of us Christians don't know what we really believe. Like a cork in the ocean, driven and tossed by the waves, we bounce from opinion to opinion ... We've become activity junkies, seldom stopping long enough to decide what really matters to us, too busy to determine what's really worth living for, let alone worth dying for. — Dennis Rainey

History is always a grand fantasy ... To reconstruct is to invent. — Eca De Queiros

What wouldn't my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt? — Renita D'Silva

Loving God is like my being black. I just am. [No one says] 'You know what? I'm gonna be blacker today!' It's my culture. It's not something I put on or take off or show more. You just communicate that in the way you live your life. — Angela Bassett

Between the Murmurs of My Heart
I kneel in awe at the altar of myself,
resonating in the realization
between the murmurs of my heart, that
'I
am
the
miracle
of
life. — Beryl Dov

With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces ... But a knowledge of the positions and intensities of the spectra does not suffice for the determination of the structure. The phases with which the diffracted waves vibrate relative to one another enter in an essential way. To determine a crystal structure on the atomic scale, one must know the phase differences between the different interference spots on the photographic plate, and this task may certainly prove to be rather difficult. — Max Von Laue

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another. — Robert Sternberg