#conditions

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #conditions




No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.


Emma Goldman


#binds #chariot #conditions #ever #fixed

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.


Benjamin Whorf


#analysis #between #conditions #defective #directed

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.


Angela Carter


#cults #does #emotional #father #first

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any determination of illiteracy, whether it applies to language or to science. But anything like 95 percent illiteracy is extremely serious.


Carl Sagan


#literacy #science #social-conditions #education

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.


Leo Tolstoy


#life #life

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.


Marv Albert


#confused #fans #fool #impossible #negativity

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.


John Barton


#conditions #consider #create #elements #experiment

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.


Warren Beatty


#conditions #disparity #lack #private #private schools

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.


John Desmond Bernal


#atmosphere #both #cold #conditions #containing

At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as "panics" - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.


Jo Bonner


#adverse conditions #affecting #been #caused #conditions