#formula

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. ↗

— Max Frisch

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I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#chemical #chemical reactions #formulating #i #interested

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. ↗

— Herbert Bayard Swope

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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#bad #bad idea #beginning #first #formulation

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. ↗

— Jimmy Greaves

#becoming #chemical #complicated #football #formula

It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic completely out the window, then that writer has me for good. Most book surprises aren't surprising at all but follow a formula, like the dead body that's certain to lurch out of a wreck being explored by deep-sea divers in just about every book that involves wrecks and divers. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#life

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

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The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made. ↗

— Robert Barany

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