(539 quotes found)
“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it.”
Copernicus
“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.”
Charles Simic
“I constructed a theoretically perfect thrust, but I eliminated a few intermediate movements so that nobody could execute it. It has the appearance of being perfect”
Arturo Perez Reverte
“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.”
Herbert Hoover
“Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.”
Ruth Westheimer
“The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.”
Albert Einstein
“In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We've constructed what we consider a micron-scale analog of an ox, ... These are 'micro-oxen,' a micro-scale beast of burden.”
George Whitesides
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
Walter Benjamin
Bookmark
