“Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.” SometimesFactsProblemGoalFindingsRegardPhilosopherDoctrineAssumptionInterpretationAccurateRealismMultiplePropositionsInference Author:Elliott Sober
“I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.” LongReasonPlayWantedJobsCareersLong TimeBaseballMeetingsMultipleTurned DownPlaying BaseballMultiple Jobs Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“People have multiple identities.” PeopleIdentityMultipleMultiple Identities Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“I travel internationally a lot and I have a hard time sleeping and staying awake normally after crossing multiple time zones, especially going east. I've tried light therapy but not found it too helpful.” HardLightFoundSleepEastTherapyAwakeHard TimesZoneStayingHelpfulMultipleCrossingsTime Zones Author:William Gurstelle
“Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the sum of multiple studies that all lean in the same direction in their results conducted by different people at different times of different nationalities with different competitive urges who all end up getting the same result. Then you have an emerging scientific truth, and then you put that in the textbooks, and that will never be shown to be wrong later on.” PeopleDifferentEndsResultsStudyTruth IsScientistUrgesMultipleDifferent PeoplesNationalityEmergingTextbooksDifferent TimesScientific TruthDifferent Nationalities Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.” MenCommonCasesPercentHundredOddMultipleTattooEightyHomicideTattooed Author:Truman Capote
“I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.” PeopleYearsTwoKidsSchoolMovingThreeVoiceGroupsMilitaryPositionMomStressMeetingsThree YearsMultipleSpouseUnfamiliarDeploymentWorking ManWorking MomMilitary Spouse Author:Michelle Obama
“If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of prop it up as a point of pride, then perhaps. But I don't think anybody living there was begging for multiple 40,000-seat venues to be plopped down in the city.” IfsThinkingGovernmentCitiesTeamPrideTrainSeatsMultipleBeggingPropsPumpsVenuesNational TeamRussian GovernmentSochi Author:Gary Hustwit
“Hilary Clinton stated multiple times, falsely, that seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That is false; we can say that the Russian government is not the source.” GovernmentSourceClintonRussiaAgencyMultiplePublicationSeventeenIntelligence AgenciesRussian GovernmentHilary Clinton Author:Julian Assange
“When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving - in school or at home - that is the time to apply the lens of multiple intelligences and see whether one can find ways to help the child thrive in different environments.” WayChildrenDifferentReasonHelpingHomeSchoolEnvironmentThriveNo ReasonMultipleEnd TimesLensesSpend TimeAssessingDifferent EnvironmentsMultiple Intelligences Author:Howard Gardner
“I don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can be reached in multiple ways.” ThinkingWayGoalMultiple Author:Howard Gardner
“Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.” KnowsHardDealsUnionsCongressComplicatedMultipleParliament Author:Barack Obama
“Donald [Driver] is a good guy, a righteous guy. I have no beef with him. But I have multiple sources on this; people not connected with one another who verified it.” PeopleGuySourceConnectedDriversRighteousMultipleGood GuyBeef Author:Jeff Pearlman
“The film [ Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] was shot on a KODAK Zi8 camera as well as on multiple camera phones. It was processed using the effects of FINAL CUT X and then edited in FINAL CUT 7.” WellsFilmCuttingEffectsHolyShotsCamerasFinalsPhonesMultipleEditedHoly GrailKodak Author:Evan Jacobs
“You can't just be in one thing and be comfortable in that one thing. You have to understand multiple things and how they all connect.” One ThingComfortableMultiple Author:Maria Rodale
“If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know there's guys that say immigrants come here, and they create so much crime and they take jobs. There's multiple sides to every story.” IfsKnowsStoriesJobsGuySocialSidesMediaCrimeIgnoranceHotSocial MediaDebateImmigrationImmigrantsMultipleButtons Author:George Lopez
“You have to wait a few days in between selfies. I know people who post multiple in a day, and some of them are my close friends, and I'll be like, "Enough!" There are only so many times in a day that I need to see your beautiful face.” PeopleKnowsNeedsEnoughBeautifulFacesWaitingPostsMultipleClose FriendsYour BeautifulBeautiful Face Author:Ariana Grande
“Once I started getting multiple days off in a row, it was a long year for me. That had never happened, and everybody knew I didn't like it.” YearsLongHappenedMultipleDays Off Author:Prince Fielder
“I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources that are rare on earth and common on selected asteroids. So there are many different reasons you might want to go into space. You might want to spend your honeymoon on the far side of the moon.” WorldWantFirstsPersonsSaidDifferentReasonMightEarthSidesNaturalSpaceCommonMoonResourcesMultipleExploitsNatural ResourcesSelectedHoneymoonAsteroidsFar Side Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“You can lead in multiple ways. I try and lead by example, and make sure that I'm always accountable to my teammates. That starts off with my commitment to waking up early, training hard, lifting weights, and running. It's in my nutrition. It's just making sure I always put myself in the best possible position.” WayTryingHardRunningExamplePositionTrainingCommitmentWeightWake UpWakingNutritionMultipleTeammateLiftingUp EarlyLead InWaking Up EarlyLifting WeightsTraining Hard Author:Larry Fitzgerald
“I find that the interesting challenges, because there's obvious things where, you know, don't be unethical, don't be evil, you know, don't break the law, don't do immoral things, those are all straightforward and don't create ethical dilemmas. The thing that's interesting is when you actually have multiple interests at stake and you have to kind of navigate your way through it.” KnowsWayKindLawEvilInterestChallengesInterestingBreakObviousEthicalStakesMultipleImmoralDilemmaStraightforwardNavigateUnethicalObvious ThingsEthical Dilemmas Author:Reid Hoffman
“I think Donald Trump is a preeminent multitasker, can handle multiple things at one time, and when he's committed to doing something, nothing stops him or gets in his way.” ThinkingWayTrumpCommittedHandleOne TimeMultiple Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple social realities: I could get by no problem in many social arenas (including that of high school), but also felt alienated and totally uninspired by everything that happened there.” WayHas BeensProblemRealitySchoolSocialFeltHappenedHigh SchoolIncludingOne WayMultipleNo ProblemArenaSecrecySecretiveJugglingAdeptEarly LifeUninspired Author:Melissa Febos
“The idea that you can separate jihadi terrorism from Islam is exactly what got us in the mess we are today, with 65 million refugees around the world and with ISIS controlling territory in multiple countries.” WorldIdeasCountryTodayMillionsIslamTerrorismAround The WorldMessTerritoryMultipleRefugeeIsis Author:Sebastian Gorka
“When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.” LastsChanceIdentityTwentiesExperimentsMultipleLast TimeMultiple Identities Author:Irvine Welsh
“Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.” DifferentChoicesBrainDemocracyBuiltExpertsRepresentativesMultipleOverlappingDifferent Choices Author:David Eagleman
“The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.” WorldWellsBrainClearCuttingFunctionStrategyAccomplishComplexityMultipleCartography Author:David Eagleman
“I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenLooksKindChildrenPersonsShowsMediaTelevisionBehaviorMen And WomenMajorityCriminalsCopMultipleMondayFridaySitcomGangstersProfanityCriminal Behavior Author:Bill Cosby
“Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite capable of fighting multiple battles at once!” WayTurnsFightingBattleCapableFeministClassicPanicMultipleSilencing Author:Laura Bates
“Russian government was in contact with multiple [Donald] Trump campaign sources while they were doing [attacks]. Russian nemesis in the American government, U.S. State Department, CIA, are not faring well since Donald Trump came to power.” WellsStatesGovernmentSourceTrumpCampaignsContactDepartmentMultipleCiaAmerican GovernmentNemesisRussian Government Author:Rachel Maddow
“But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's multiple reaffirmations of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning - gets airbrushed out of the picture.” MeanPurposeJudgingIncludingPlanningPhrasesAppropriateMultiplePopeFiltersRippedOf ContextFamily Planning Author:George Weigel
“The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.” WayImportantDifferentPlayHappensRunningCoursesStuffCan DoLinesDecisionHappeningsImportant ThingsTechniqueThings HappenBlockDifferent ThingsTargetZeroSplitsMultipleAngleSlow DownDistractedQuarterbackAssignmentsDifferent AnglesLinebackers Author:Bill Belichick
“I think there are multiple ways to have your voice heard. In some cases, it's through protest and it's through going on the nightly news and talking about or denouncing every issue on which you disagree with. Other times it is quietly and directly and candidly.” ThinkingWayVoiceTalkingCasesIssuesHeardNewsProtestDisagreeMultiple Author:Ivanka Trump
“The essence of the cinema that I'm interested in is a combination of love, rage, and curiosity. Sometimes it's hard to see those intentions, or maybe it's hard to portray them on film in a way that doesn't sound too preachy or irrelevant. So instead of saying it out loud, you say it multiple times in the movie by hiding it. You get a sensation after you see the whole film throughout yourself.” WaySometimesHardWholeFilmSoundEssenceIntentionCuriosityRageCombinationLoudCinemaSensationsHidingMultipleIrrelevant Author:Pablo Larrain
“The good part of what comics trains you to do is it trains you - especially if you've worked in mainstream comics like Marvel and DC, or if you're just doing your own independent comics - to compartmentalize things and work on multiple things at the same time. And that's a skill that is incredibly handy in Hollywood, because within the first year that you get here, you realize there's a reason why every successful person in Hollywood has like seven or eight projects up in the air at any point.” ReasonRealizingSuccessfulIndependentTrainSevenMultipleHandy Author:Ed Brubaker
“I'm not afraid to express the different elements of my personality, and I think there's a bad habit in America now to, label people having multiple personalities, things like this, but it's, I feel like, even on the album I describe myself as a hydra which is, many heads, many different personalities.I don't think you need to be one specific person when you can be many.” PeopleThinkingDifferentPersonalityHabitNot AfraidMultipleBad HabitsMultiple Personalities Author:Marilyn Manson
“I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.” InterestDecisionTranslateMultiple Author:Adam Morris
“My dad was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he didn't earn much money. But he was determined to pay whatever tiny part he owed for my tuition on time every month. So even though he had multiple sclerosis and often struggled just to get dressed in the morning, he hardly ever missed a day of work. His determination and love are an inspiration to me every day.” InspirationWaterMorningDadDeterminationPlantMy DadDeterminedMultiple Author:Michelle Obama
“The important thing for women to know is, you can be who you are and run for office. Women need to see themselves as good candidates, whose life experience matters, and understand that there are multiple ways that people enter public life.” PeopleImportantRunningOfficeWho You AreLife ExperienceMultiple Author:Maggie Hassan
“I think the President Donald Trump was quite clear in his statement that he made to the American people that Syria's continued violations of U.N. resolutions and previous agreements that Syria had entered into regarding the Chemical Weapons Accord would no longer be tolerated. I think we have stood by and watched multiple weapon - chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian regime under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad.” PeopleThinkingPresidentResolutionMultipleSyria Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a lot of it is very subtle, and it catches you by surprise later on. So I don't want to go overboard on this.” MovingFootballSurpriseChessMultipleOverboard Author:Gary Sick
“The problem is not just the cost of the ships, but that the swapping was supposed to be quick, but right now it can take days or weeks, which is more like traditional refitting. But the model of modularity and being able to take on different roles is a good one. This is where adding in unmanned systems in the future will be an aid. If they can carry them onboard, whether it be drones to mine or sub-hunting underwater systems, all ships should be able to do such multiple roles simultaneously.” DifferentProblemWeekAidsMultiple Author:P. W. Singer
“That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.” TryingPresidentDecisionSecurityMake SenseMultipleNational Security Author:Greg Miller
“At school, when kids are being encouraged to get the one right answer and fill in that bubble, people can do things that enable their children to solve problems in multiple ways: "Can you think of different ways to make the bed?" It costs nothing, and the child is learning, "I have good ideas, I can be creative, and I can show you that I have confidence."” PeopleThinkingChildrenDifferentProblemKidsSchoolCreativeBubblesMultipleBe CreativeHave Confidence Author:Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
“When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.” ThinkingWritingDifferentKidsNightForgetBrainWake UpImpulseSwimmingPoolMentorMultipleWriting Process Author:Mark Duplass
“Tillerson, at ExxonMobil, brokered multibillion-dollar deals with Russia, meeting with Putin multiple times. In 2013, he received the Order of Friendship award from Putin himself. But Tillerson today said he'd support continuing sanctions against Russia for now. He also implied his intimate knowledge of Russia meant he understood its strategy, and could anticipate its moves, to America's benefit.” TodayMovingSupportStrategyMeetingsIntimateMultiple Author:Margaret Warner
“We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if there's no limit, as if there's no consequence to how we're taking and disposing, and as if it can go on endlessly. We are reaching the breaking point on multiple levels. Communities are breaking, the planet is breaking, people's bodies are breaking. We are taking too much.” EarthCultureCommunityConsequenceMultiplePoint Break Author:Naomi Klein
“It is a little bit difficult to talk about things that do involve classified matters in public. But I think the public needs to know that there are multiple oversight layers, including the FISA Court, congressional oversight, internal oversight within the FBI and intelligence community, that protects Americans from - under - their - their privacy rights while targeting terrorists and people who are trying to kill us.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifficultCommunityProtectTerroristPrivacyMultipleFbi Author:James Comey
“I don't think the rhetoric toward President Trump from media sources or media commentators is any worse than what Franklin Roosevelt got from a conservative press in another era. And Roosevelt was, you know, not as blunt as Trump about the press, but, you know, there was an ideological press back then, when we had multiple newspapers in town.” ThinkingPresidentConservativeMultipleRhetoricIdeologicalFranklinBlunt Author:Tom Rosenstiel