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“Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides with defined sequences it is not unreasonable to hope that all these points will be clarified in the near future, and that the genetic code will be completely established on a sound experimental basis within a few years.”

Should Years Sound Bases Difficulty Add Defined Code Complexity Spite Dna Sequence Unreasonable Protein Synthesis

Author:Francis Crick

“From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.”

Philosophy Defined Existentialism Ambiguity

Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.”

Information Objects Contact Defined Acquisition Sensing

Book:Introduction To The Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing

Source: Introduction To The Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing

“In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.”

Audience Bars Defined Relate Score Strict Punctuation

Author:Ralph Richardson

“Iran is an ancient land, home to a proud culture with a rich heritage of learning and progress. The future of Iran will be decided by the people of Iran. Right now, the Iranian people are struggling with difficult questions about how to build a modern 21st century society that is at once Muslim, prosperous, and free. There is a long history of friendship between the American people and the people of Iran. As Iran's people move towards a future defined by greater freedom, greater tolerance, they will have no better friend than the United States of America.”

“Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.”

Trying May Government Form Individual Aim Defined Preserves Permanent Conspiracy Pretension

Author:H. L. Mencken

“If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans.”

“Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.”

Thinking Strong Wealth Responsible Equality Handle Command Defined Relative

Author:Mary Douglas

“Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.”

Way Has Beens States United Marriage United States Judging Institutions Fundamentals Defined Sat Legislature

Author:Jeff Sessions

“Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.”

Men Years Marriage Civilization Unions Defined Exception One Man One Woman

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.”

Universe Found Understanding Common Quality Fire Tree Essentials Fishes Defined Recognition Apes Kinship Understanding Him

Book:The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man

Source: The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man

“Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One”

Looks Art Artist Doubt Impossible Modern Intellectual Method Obvious Clever Defined No Doubt Delightful Assertive

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde

“As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.”

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.”

Moments Christian Process Christ Church Claims Refuse Defined Labels Destroying Notable Christian Faith Moments In Time Redefining

Author:Mel White

“Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.”

Giving May Art Philosophy Problem Answers Awareness Solutions Asking Defined Disguise Right Questions Asking The Right Questions

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.”

Age President Rights Mankind Ignorance Periods Understood Foundation Defined Former Empires Superstitions Gloomy Epoch

Book:The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“The universe is made of one kind of what-ever-it-is, which cannot be defined.”

Kind Made Universe Kindness Defined

Book:The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

Source: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.”

States Values Individual Media Messages Red Hollywood Blue Defined Rejects Subjective Resent Subjectivity Red And Blue

Author:Trent Lott

“Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.”

Certain Path Havens Defined Dogma Identifying

Author:Emilio Estevez

“The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.”

Knows Men Way Want Problem Might Achieve Design He Man Prove Discovery Instruments Strive Solve Technique Defined Anticipation Novelty New Discoveries

Author:Thomas Kuhn

“The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the cancer process. The ischium are also reforming and the illi (hip bones) likewise show diminution of bone lysis. No sane, honest physician could call this a "spontaneous remission."”

Wells Shows Process Honest Cancer Bones Defined Hips Remarkable Rays Sane Physicians Spontaneous Rebuilding Remission

Author:Robert Willner

“Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.”

Sports Leadership Player Honest Honesty Defined Being Honest One Word Honest With Yourself

Author:Earl Weaver

“It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.”

Way Wells Important Done Life Is Language Felt Sports Leadership Discipline Ill Definitions Defined Ingredients My Thoughts Athletics

Author:Bobby Knight

“Functional exercise is not defined by what it looks like, it's defined by what it produces”

Looks Produce Exercise Defined

Author:Brett Jones

“I am not a girl that can ever be defined. I am not fly, I am levitation..I represent an entire generation!”

Girl Generations Defined Levitation

Author:Nicki Minaj

“Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.”

Way School High School Adults Defined Introvert Extroverts School Days

Author:Neil Peart

“Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.”

States Artist Practice Achieve Fields Photography Profession Contrary Defined Assumption Mastery Immature

Author:Roland Barthes

“Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.”

Opposites Defined

Author:Mahmoud Darwish

“Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.”

Wells Important Sometimes Character Stories Interest Remains Historical Defined Novelists Spite Precise Mediocre Historical Context

Author:Raymond Queneau

“I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix external verities, things that are true for all time, ideas that are true for all time: Rome will last forever! America will last forever! Beauty, as defined by the fashion industry, is one of those things—this is beautiful. This will always be beautiful—and hold it in a way that has some sense of permanence about it, and absoluteness. And yet it’s not.”

People Thinking Way Trying Ideas Earth Lasts America Beautiful Forever Fashion Industry All Time Defined Rome Permanence Fashion Industry Time On Earth

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.”

Past Cities Defined Denver

Author:John Hickenlooper

“For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

Use Language Class Cases Defined

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.”

Knows Humans Reason Philosophy Desire Passion Moral Economy Genius Shapes Lows Slave Defined Appetite Transcendent Spurs Hume

Author:Kenny Smith

“What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers.”

Believe Wells Numbers Discovery Infinite Following Determined Defined Definite Finite Epiphany Ascending Finite Number

Author:Georg Cantor

“Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.”

Men States Might Fear Steps Civilization Defined Fear Of Change

Book:Fear and Conventionality

Source: Fear and Conventionality

“Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.”

May Wish Compassion Capacity Defined

Author:Joan Halifax

“However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.”

States Government Law Subjects Locals Defined Sovereignty Alterations Puerto Rico Rico Local Government

Author:Dick Thornburgh

“Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.”

Way Want Mean Results Meditation Defined Right Way Maximum Better Ways Transcendental Transcendental Meditation

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one”

May International Defined Burning Diplomacy Diplomats Substitution Arbitration

Book:The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays

Source: The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays

“The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.”

Source: The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle

“To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.”

Humanity Willing Salvation Instinct Defined Deceit Nothingness Preservation

Author:Maurice Blondel

“Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.”

“The worth of a person’s thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has got and this quality is defined by a single factor, which is only people’s human character.”

People Humans Persons Character Quality Support Factors Defined Quantity

Author:Anuj

“The first day of the brand new calendar year is an empowered time to psychologically unwind to mentally find own life charged emotionally with a refined energy & enthusiasm to create a beautiful growth paradigm within the physically defined laws of nature and the rules of the game called life.”

Years Firsts Beautiful Law Games Energy Growth Enthusiasm Defined Brands Laws Of Nature Empowered Paradigm Refined Calendars Brand New Unwind Rules Of The Game

Author:Anuj

“Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.”

Looks Defined Brows Polished

Author:Bobbi Brown

“How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are!”

World Way Made Beautiful Dare Defined True Beauty Beautiful You You Are Beautiful

Author:Rachel Hamilton

“A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.”

Ideas Care Suffering Party Moral Morality Conflict Behavior Defeat Defense Boundaries Defined Immoral Predator

Author:Randy Wayne White

“I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.”

World Way Self Difficult Defined Immigrants New World Renewal Paradigm Old World Old Ways Rupture

Author:Ayad Akhtar

“Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to the use and pleasure or man: it is, or ought to be, cultivated and enriched by art'.”

Men Art Use Pleasure Pieces Century Ought Garden Defined Nineteenth Century Cattle Theorists

Author:Tom Turner

“Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.”

Thinking Knows Believe Humans Human Beings Worship Claims Bounds Core Defined

Author:Dallas Willard

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