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“Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.”

Way Should Results Importance Makers

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.”

Ifs Men Believe Has Beens Would Be Results Powerful Emotion Known Journey Discovery Importance Shame Accomplished Most Powerful Abandoned Ignominy Powerful Emotions

Book:An Instance of the Fingerpost

Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost

“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source: The Lost World

“The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.”

May Littles Moments Values Order Individual Lost Differences Results Events Battle Balls Importance Great Results

Author:Duke of Wellington

“If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Important Ability Results Progress Honesty Importance Important Things Intelligence Experiments Interpretation

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.”

Giving Christian Religious Results Influence Teaching Dangerous Importance Tendencies Curious Paganism

Author:Nicholas Murray Butler

“When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

“A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.”

“Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.”

May Certain Results Existence Taken Influence Produce Higher Accounts Importance Finite Magnitude

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.”

Looks War Sound Results Importance Civil War Patriotic Pope Energetic Impulsive Hasty

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes