#reaction

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#american #any #apply #born #call

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #evolution #example #fact #fault

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#action #always #best #better #get

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #aspect #autonomy #aware #counter

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#even #hypothetical #interactions #molecules #more

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction. ↗

— Joe Murray

#asks #creative #direction #flow #ideas

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#always #equal #every #opposed #reaction

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#get #make #music #people #reaction

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong. ↗

— Dick Van Patten

#get #honest #loyalty #once #only

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ↗

— Plato

#change #direction #excess #generally #governments