#imp

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#fact #failing #him #his #implicit

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#considerations #empirically #even #everyday #everyday life

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#bug #detect #impossible #installed #well

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#get #good #gotten #great #groups

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#had #i #leisure #letter #long

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#entire #importance #least #movement #nature

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#doctrine #experiment #generation #mortal #never

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#basic #care #domestic #facing #health

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all. ↗

— George Pataki

#cessation #continuing #effort #even #expansion

We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business. ↗

— George Pataki

#business #corporations #economic #economic times #going