I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If school days are the happiest of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.”
“If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.”
“If science begins to rely on accident or chance, then it is going in the wrong direction. It will ruin itself instead of relying on reason.”
“If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!”
“If science concerns itself with what things are and how things could become, design then is the study and execution of how things should be.”
“If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.”
“If science could make a person understand the true significance of morality in human existence, - and more importantly, if science could enable a person to manifest his or her innate morality, then the scientists would be the least promiscuous people, and most faithful partners on earth.”
Source: Morality Absolute
“If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.”
“If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.”
“If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves and the world.”
“If science is defined or understood as a mode of seeking knowledge, a means of interpreting nature in a way that can be demonstrated to others, then the plant-medicine traditions of the Amazon as they have been practiced constitute an authentic scientific discipline.”
Source: Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
“If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.”
“If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.”
“If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.”
“If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.”
“If science wants to be truthful,
What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?
I close my eyes and the hard earth where I’m lying
Has a reality so real even my back feels it.
I don’t need reason — I have shoulderblades.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
“If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?”
“If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.”
“If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.”
Source: Endless horizons
“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world”
Source: Endless horizons
“If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private power. Those who have different goals should (and do) become organized and activist.”
“If scientists don't play God, who will?”
“If Scientists Like Einstein didn't exist, we wouldn't never know about the Universe”
“If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.”
“If Scott Brown can win in a state that President Obama won by 26 points, I can win in a district that Obey won by just 20 points against an unknown, underfunded challenger in the Democratic landslide of 2008. It means there is not a single Democrat in the country who is safe.”
“If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.”
“If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.”
“If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.”
“If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.”
Source: Theological-Political Treatise
“If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it is supposed to be able to do, and through it ask questions, philosophical questions, about being, I think these are all things we work on, all of us in our different ways, so perhaps somewhere in there, there are moments where dumb objects can speak.”
“If seasons diseases be, consider human's too, his fate same it's true
Rudest time steels, and murders through fever, pain, amid all in woe.
Swelling then cold, yet numb, in young and old, fearing wildest swell,
See it turns the sweetest singers throats, and morrow, a garland will.
On ‘Seasons A Dirge’-A Dirge
For A Diseased Friend Who Died Of Fever In 2013”
Source: Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
“If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads won't attract them without offering them better options.”
“If securing some mentors and being one yourself are not already on your leadership list of things to do, let’s get at it. It’s too important for your career to ignore.”
Source: Leadership That Rocks
“If security guards aren't allowed to carry guns, I don't have to obey their made up rules.”
“If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.”
“If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.”
“If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?”
“If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow.”
“If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.”
“If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945”
Source: Collected Poems
“If seek the light of knowledge of God, we know how to live.”
“If seizures can't stop me, nothing can.”
“If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (time and talent) to a boss.”
“If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situations. You are a stronger person because of the shit you've gone through.”
Source: Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
“If self is a location, so is love.”