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“The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been said-that there is a distinctive methodology of science which scientists practice unwittingly, like the chap in Moliere who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose.”

Has Beens Said Facts Science Found Poor Practice Evidence Scientist Prose Formal Distinctive Methodology Chaps

Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

“I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.”

Writing Humans I Can Stories Seems Spiritual Language Existence Imagine Adventure Species Bounds Appropriate Formal Telling Stories Great Adventure

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.”

People Feelings Artist Speak Deeper Formal Sigh

Author:Ned Rorem

“In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.”

Communication Formal

Author:Ben Bernanke

“Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.”

Lines Company Position Smart Management Workers Bottom Boards Things To Do Right Thing Formal Senior Bottom Line Senior Management

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.”

Feels Looks Matter Care Dies Winter Legs Formal Who Cares Shorts Tombstone Hypothermia

Author:Eliza Coupe

“I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.”

School Gone Drama Training Formal

Author:Agyness Deyn

“Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.”

World Children School Young Mother Artist Father Born Photography Training Various British London Educated Germany Formal Berlin Young Children Diplomats

Author:Fay Godwin

“I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.”

Years Together Young Enjoy Photograph Spending Loved Ones Formal Get Together Spending Time Young And Old

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.”

Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Might Actors Interesting Boys Careers Ten Preparation Formal Might Have Been

Author:Sam Elliott

“To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.”

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting it control you. I think men and women both need a softness about them with formal wear.”

Thinking Men Needs Elements Men And Women Imperfect Formal Softness Formal Wear

Author:Paul Feig

“I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.”

Way Writing Might School Turns Deals Attention Careers Ignorance Training Prepared Ill Credit Guides Formal

Author:Kim Harrison

“I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.”

Terrible Setting Settings Formal

Author:David Knopfler