“We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.” Has BeensTwoGovernmentLastsPoliticalTermHalfImpossibleSubjectsCenturyTypeOrganizationAccountsDifficultyMereLogicalResolvePerversionMake Out Author:Albert J. Nock
“I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine?” PeopleTryingLittlesImagineColorTvsTypeAccountsVideoSavingFewerImpressChipsSavingsCablesNo MoneyHookedKeyboardsCircuitsSearsSavings Accounts Author:Steve Wozniak
“If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.” IfsMenMayMeanStatesTypeAccountsMethodExcuseDoctrinePeculiarMinistryTemperamentBaptistsAdaptedCorrespondingMethodistsEpiscopalians Author:George Horace Lorimer
“The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and you're reminded in this specific case what the artist's work is about, what his life is like, and how life mirrors art.” ArtLife IsArtistCasesEventsTypeAccountsMirrorsLife Is LikeSad Things Author:Massimiliano Gioni
“The information that the Secret Service shared with the White House included hotel records and firsthand accounts - the same types of evidence the agency and military relied on to determine who in their ranks was involved.” HouseWhiteSecretRecordsMilitaryInformationTypeInvolvedEvidenceAccountsDetermineAgencyHotelWhite HouseNotableSecret Service Author:Carol D. Leonnig
“We all use cash in our everyday life, but we don't use hundred-dollar bills. We're not using 500-euro notes. And yet these account for mountains of cash out there. I think they're being used in tax evasion and by criminals of all types.” ThinkingUseUsedTypeMountainTaxesHundredAccountsBillsDollarsNotesEverydayCriminalsCashEveryday LifeEuroEvasionDollar BillsTax Evasion Author:Kenneth Rogoff
“The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well.” WellsChildrenPlayWholeShowsChoicesHoursPayCareersRolesBreakTypeResearchArgumentAccountsMythDiscriminationFactorsRelatedGapsSuggestingPay Gap Author:Laura Bates
“Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.” FirstsHumansEarthTypeThousandPercentAccountsPlantThirtyAncestorPotatoesCornRiceElevenBeansWheatOatsBarley Author:Bill Bryson
“Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.” MenHumansMeanEndsWould BeScienceReligionProgressTypeEthicsAccountsObservationHuman LifeNonsenseMetaphysicsCompetence Author:Jacques Maritain
“It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.” ScienceNatureClearTeachingTypeOughtAccountsSevenCodeAnalysisCrystalsAmbiguityGeneticsStrangeness Book:Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
“Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.” IfsHumansScienceIndividualSocietyTypeAccountsDescriptionHuman SocietyInaccessible Author:Emile Durkheim
“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.” WholeScienceCertainCultureSocialSupportHealthTypeDevelopmentHealthyTraditionAccountsFunctionStructureApplicationIntegratedSocial Structure Author:Talcott Parsons
“The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.” BelieveDifferentEndsUseWould BeScienceOrderAsksI BelieveResultsTeachingHonestyTypeHighestConcernedAccountsMethodFundamentalsConstantFavorsMotiveCharacteristicsImpressConformIdenticalScientific Method Author:Ira Remsen
“The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science.” ArtTwoScienceCreativeStudyTypeElementsAccountsHistoricalCharacteristicsConsideringSubjectiveDistinguishedGeologyCreative ArtGeologistExact Sciences Author:Reinout Willem van Bemmelen