Home / Topics / Pieces Quotes

Pieces Quotes

Browse 5667 quotes about Pieces.

Pieces Quotes

“I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant

“From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar to the parent, and some of them superior to the parent in the qualities we wish to possess... Sexual reproduction is the chef d'oeuvre, the master-piece of nature.”

Young Science Wish Parent Quality Pieces Generations Masters Evolution Plant Seeds Improvement Superiors Variety Chef Reproduction

Book:The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin

Source: The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin

“Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.”

World Way Mind States Facts Problem Body Reality Faces Science Pieces Squares State Of Mind Sensible Attacking Claws Facing Reality

Book:The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Source: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

“Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.”

World Mind Science Winning Teach Pieces Building Lessons Machines Intelligent Mathematics Trade Species Vanity Who We Are Our World Better Place Intelligent Machines

Author:Astro Teller

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”

Ifs Men Firsts Science Common Pieces Accounts Patient Rate Common Sense Plenty Furniture Chamber Quip

Book:THE

Source: THE