“The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of experience and habit-but by the scope and accuracy of the individual laws to the discovery of which it eventually leads.” IdeasMatterLawScienceIndividualHabitDegreesMajorsDiscoveryExperienceDeterminedNew IdeasScopeAccuracy Book:Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers
“Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.” WorldWayKindDifferentTodayGivenNationsEnvironmentModernConditionsMankindDrugDiseaseDegreesMajorsConcernConcernedYesterdayOur WorldDifferent KindsOrganismsPlagueOur EnvironmentHazardsScourgeCholeraSanitationSmallpoxInfectious DiseasesLiving Conditions Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree.” CollegeDegreesMajorsGradesEnglish Major Author:Josh Lieb
“I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.” WorstStudentsDegreesMajorsProgramGraduates Author:William Shatner
“You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.” MenFirstsLittlesTwoProblemGirlSocialSituationBoysSawsHigherDegreesMajorsMen And WomenDatingTownsBackgroundsDefinedDecentPopularityOngoingContainingMajor ProblemsMead Author:Margaret Mead
“Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.” LittlesSelfLife IsExistenceWonderClassRolesModernMiddleConditionsIdentitySourceReturnDegreesMajorsCrisisSakeDefinedRevelationsMiddle ClassDaily LifeUrbanTrue SelfAcheStressfulIdentity CrisisRole PlayingSelf Revelation Author:E. O. Wilson
“Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.” YearsHumansIdeasValuesReligiousDegreesMajorsTraditionExtraordinaryInsightEnormousHuman ExperienceTheologicalBreathtakingReligious Traditions Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Even going to college, getting my degree in Radio TV and Film, as I was approaching the time when you have to decide on a major, I kept trying to figure out what would be the best major to enhance what I am doing as a performer.” TryingWould BeFilmFiguresCollegeTvsDegreesMajorsRadioBeing The BestPerformersGoing To College Author:Jeff Dunham
“I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.” ArtDegreesMajorsUniversityFortunateCanadaMinorsProgrammesLiberal ArtsArts Degrees Author:O.R. Melling
“Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.” IfsWorldMeanHas BeensBookShowsStreetsTheoryDegreesMajorsTrainingRingsLeagueAcademicMajor LeagueHomicideBook Learning Author:David Simon
“Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in men, and I love men, in terms of father, brother, everyone, disciples, students etc. Yet men have certain powers of compassion that are hard-pressed to be found in a woman to that degree.” MenWayDifferentHardCertainFoundFatherTermCompassionStudentsBrotherDegreesMajorsEtcDisciple Author:Maya Tiwari
“The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.” WorldStillsMomentsLastsProgressCenturyDegreesMajorsWideInventionEducatedContributionNineteenth CenturyExplorersNaturalist Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.” SocialCausesRaceEnvironmentDegreesMajorsIntellectualImprovementDeficitHereditary Author:William Shockley
“Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.” PeopleIfsTodayJobsWaitingDegreesMajorsIndiaHotWaveHeatSweatingHeat WaveOutsourced Author:Jay Leno
“What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.” IfsHappensWould BeHalfDarknessSunMonthsMoonDegreesSixMajorsSouthVicesTinyRangeExposedGravitySwingsSix MonthsNinetyTemperatureVariationVaryVice VersaOrbitTiltNorth Pole Author:Guillermo Gonzalez
“I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.” ThinkingFeelsHas BeensUseRegretDegreesMajorsResourcesSavingProductiveMassiveAbolish Author:Ken Livingstone
“I think the most challenging aspect was keeping up the degree of physical fitness you need while filming a major leading role in a primetime U.S. series. You have very little time to sleep and eat, let alone train.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesChallengesSleepRolesDegreesMajorsAspectTrainSeriesLittle TimePhysical FitnessTime To Sleep Author:Dustin Clare
“The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.” WantWritingChanceAnswersPsychologyDegreesMajorsChemistryChances Are Author:Jon Stewart
“Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.” WaySelfEventsDivineDegreesMajorsTransformedSelf KnowledgeInteriorsBreakthrough Author:Thomas Keating
“I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?” KnowsKindFilmLanguageStudyTheoryDegreesMajorsYeahPostsGreekPrizeLatinIrrelevant Author:Robert Greene
“The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around the most important issues facing their lives and show that there is support for fundamental changes in the way we do business in the United States of America in terms of income inequality, in terms of low wages, in terms of disastrous trade policies, in terms of being the only major country not to have a national healthcare program - that's success.” PeopleWayImportantCountryStatesHelpingShowsAmericaPoliticalTermUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesSupportIssuesPolicyTruth IsDegreesMajorsLowsProgramFundamentalsTradeIncomeInequalityEducateHealthcareOrganizeUnited States Of AmericaWagesImportant IssuesIncome Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders
“The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.” PeopleCountryAmericaLawCultureReligiousKnownFashionPersonalityDegreesBehaviorMajorsSplitsRevivalHystericalCovertSplit Personality Author:Robert A. Heinlein