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“In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.”

Art Feelings Peace Greatness Higher Harmony Range Endeavor True Greatness Peace Harmony

Author:Albert Einstein

“There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.”

Wisdom Age Silence Intelligence Tongue Range

Book:Songs and Satires

Source: Songs and Satires

“Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.”

Thinking Way Doe Three Games Lines Feet Basketball Performances Incredibles Range Comparison Hitting Attacking Unreal Jumpers

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I've always been intrigued with the variety of answers this generation will give their children who ask, "Where did I come from, Mommy?" They will range from "Number 176 vial in Buffalo, New York," to "You were defrosted."”

Giving Children Humor Kids Funny Asks Answers Numbers Generations New York Baby Humorous Variety Range Intrigued This Generation Buffalo

Author:Erma Bombeck

“In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!”

“If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.”

Source: A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia

“If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.”

Source: The Grammar of Science

“The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. . . . Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal. . . . Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.”

“The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe that in terms of an individual's development they are followed by mechanisms of secondary emotions, which occur once we begin experiencing feelings and forming systematic connections between categories of objects and situations, on the one hand, and primary emotions, on the other.”

Source: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

“A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.”

Kind Different Greater Theory Simplicity Relate Range Impressive Premises

Author:Albert Einstein

“From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.”

“Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.”

Source: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

“The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.”

“The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)”

Long Science Values Parent Goal Society Citizens Intention Range Acceptable Desirable Neighbour Good Citizen Dependable Good Parent Specific Goals

Author:Gordon Allport

“We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that illusion goes. So it appears that the range of the measureable is not the range of the knowable. There are things we can measure, like time, but yet our minds do not grasp their meaning. There are things we cannot measure, like happiness or pain, and yet their meaning is perfectly clear to us.”

Thinking Knows Mind Pain Science Time Knowledge Clear Illusion Range Measurement

Author:Robert Morrison MacIver

“Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.”

Promise Disease Findings Research Wide Cures Cells Range Treatment Stem Stem Cell Stem Cell Research

Author:Tom Allen

“That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.”

Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays

“When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'”

Ifs Giving Should May I Can Science Certain Nature Natural Lines Theory Satisfaction Range Formulas Representation Wiser Investigators

Author:Arthur Eddington

“Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:- so various yet so uniform-so vast yet so connected. In thus tracing back to the most remote periods in the physical history of our continents, one system of operations, as the means by which many complex formations have been successively produced, the mind becomes impressed with the singleness of nature's laws; and in this respect, at least, geology is hardly inferior in simplicity to astronomy.”

Source: The silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford etc

“The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.”

Source: The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley

“Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.”

“Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.”

“You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.”

Energy Numbers Sun Focus Activity Range Acquire Rays Domain Small Numbers

Book:Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't

Source: Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't

“If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.”

Ifs Whole Political Vision Movement Unions Come Up Extremes British Debate Range Zone Comprehensive European Union Euro Membership Populism Sideshows

Author:Nick Clegg

“I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.”

Games Study Basketball Shots Range Extending

Author:Blake Griffin

“While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services to all contribute.”

Company Products Paper Encouragement Sells Newspapers Enormous Range Carbon Truck Footprint Dvds Carbon Footprint

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.”

“Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.”

Two Shows Problem Three Trouble Western Solve Mysterious Range Sunset Riders

Author:Lee Child

“In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited by the thousands of nuclear explosions in cities, forests, agricultural fields, and oil and gas fields. As a result of these fires, the loading of the atmosphere with strongly light absorbing particles in the submicron size range (1 micron = 10-6 m) would increase so much that at noon solar radiation at the ground would be reduced by at least a factor of two and possibly a factor of greater than one hundred.”

“[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water-each and all came within the range of his observations.”

Earth Law Science Water Study Fire Air Weight Determined Observation Range Fixed Heat Proportion Composition Constituents

Book:Essays in Historical Chemistry

Source: Essays in Historical Chemistry

“Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the range of the infinitely small, nor at that of the infinitely large, but we might well live at the range of the infinitely complex. We live at the range of the most caring; we ourselves might embody the most capacity for caring.”

Humans Wells Might Humanity Capacity Complexes Caring Scales Range Giants Complexity Cosmic Dwarfs

Author:Holmes Rolston III

“The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.”

Source: A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary

“The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.”

Source: The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)

“It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The author of the remark probably meant to assert that a man or a system may have become famous on the continent, while we are almost ignorant of the name of the man and the claims of his system. Perhaps, however, a wider range might be given to the assertion. An exploded theory or a disadvantageous practice, like a rebel or a patriot in distress, seeks refuge on our shores to spend its last days in comfort if not in splendour.”

Source: The Conflict of Studies and Other Essays on Subjects Connected with Education

“I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.”

Way Giving I Can Different Talent Range Different Ways

Author:George Clooney

“People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.”

People Matter Hours Ability Leader Sacrifice Commitment Fellows Workers Committed Commit Range You Choose Commitment In Business Personal Sacrifice Uncommitted Fellow Workers

Author:Stephen R. Gregg

“Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am glad that, over the last few years, we've had more regular, and increasingly constructive, political discussions in NATO on a wider range of issues.”

Needs Years Lasts Political Issues Communication Glad Dialogue Range Discussion Allies Secretary Constructive Nato Political Dialogue

Author:Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

“Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were just getting going in a 10K and are physically and mentally primed to go further. A half marathon is a good test of your endurance, without the physical punishment of going the full 26.2 miles. More so even than the 10K, it will teach you about patience, pacing, and how to negotiate a wider range of physical and emotional cycles.”

Inspirational Feels Half Teach Emotional Tests Miles Punishment Range Cycles Endurance Marathon Pacing Half Marathons Getting Going

Book:Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line

Source: Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.”

Thinking Spiritual Failing Shapes Range Mindful Living

Author:R. D. Laing

“I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields.”

Ifs Helping Individual Community Doubt Special Fields Evolution Argument Army Range Consultants Creationist

Author:David M. Raup

“The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.”

Feels Whole Magic Locals Range Isolated Site Ecology Radius

Author:Martin Puryear

“Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.”

Problem Social Causes Issues Crime Majors Gun Wide Factors Range Isolated Distress Gun Crime

Author:Diane Abbott

“Today I am amazed at the things our children have done and their wide range of interests. They are all living their lives and not the ones I would have planned for them. But I have learned that their lives are theirs, not mine, and in living their own lives they have given me experiences and an education I would never have had if I'd been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.”

Ifs Should Children Done Enough Today Given Interest Mines Fool Letting Go Our Children Wide Range I Have Learned Amazed

Author:Bernie Siegel

“In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.”

Stills Whole Facts Form Values Enjoy Leadership Pay Truth Is Equal Comfortable Conscience Prejudice Rate Obvious Discrimination Range Inheritance Assertion Eliminating

Author:Bob Hawke

“Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that in the case of the development of moral systems; there's a biological endowment which in effect requires us to develop a system of moral judgment and a theory of justice, if you like, that in fact has detailed applicability over an enormous range.”

Ifs Should Doe Facts Grows Justice Moral Cases Effects Theory Arms Development Judgment Ethics Enormous Granted Range Endowment Moral Judgment

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.”

Needs Politics Range Hazards Never Fear

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

“In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.”

Way Mean Sometimes Done Moments Character Form Given Kindness Forgiveness Forgiving Oneself Range Desperation

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying to anticipate what the next big movement is going to be. The thing to do is to watch the market, read the tape to determine the limits of the get nowhere prices, and make up your mind that you will not take an interest until the prices breaks through the limit in either direction.”

Trying Mind Bigs Moving Next Speak Interest Watches Break Movement Limits Investing Determine Range Things To Do Tape Trading Anticipate Break Through Make Up Your Mind

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.”

“Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.”

Writing Character Action Fighting Novel Speech Capable Murder Dialogue Range Visible Vigorous

Book:The Mulberry Tree

Source: The Mulberry Tree

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