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Quotes About Field

Skill. She must know more anatomy than most professors. A doctorate in Prostitution? There was more to the oldest profession than met the eye. Louis Wu could recognize expertise in any field. This woman had it.
~ Larry Niven
THE MAIN PIECE of the body lay on the ground, on its back in the middle of a smooth grassy field. In the predawn gloom everything looked gray, but there were scuffed and paler places around the field; I think we were standing in the middle of a softball field. The "we" was Edward, U.S. Marshal Ted Forrester, and me, U.S. Marshal Anita Blake.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.
~ William Buckland
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.
~ Max Delbruck
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
~ Upton Sinclair
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
~ Richard Whately
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.
~ Henry Fairfield Osborn
Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.
~ Frederick Lenz
One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.
~ Douglas Adams
I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.
~ Brendan Iribe
I'm afraid you cannot leave, ' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.
~ Douglas Adams
FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.
~ Sepp Blatter
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
~ Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Bond Team could forget about secret-agenting in the field for a while. To begin with, they could hardly find their way around the school, let alone a supervillain's secret complex.
~ A.J. Butcher
He understood that the sources of the gravitational field were not just ponderable matter but also field energy. He realized that gravitational field energy is to be included as a source and that the gravitational field equations were therefore bound to be nonlinear.
~ Abraham Pais
Rule makers always draw up their precious rules and regulations in safety and comfort, not out in the field, where those same absolutes are supposed to be applied. At those times we have to rely on our own minds and feelings.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Existence is sometimes what a forward artillery observer sees of enemy lines through field glasses. A distant and troubling view brought suddenly into focus with a wealth of obscene detail.
~ Derek Raymond
He threw down the remote with disgust and wiped his hands on the stained expanse of his yellow button-down shirt. What a shop he'd inherited. The backup system had gone on the fritz and he had a bunch of union hires who didn't know a generator from Santa Claus. And a princess anchor talent whining about going live from the field.
~ Diana Dempsey
America fresh from Germany and the group at Peenemünde which had developed the dread V-2. When we evacuated Peenemünde, the then-secret but now famous German Rocket Development Center on the Baltic Sea, many of us had given up all hope of ever again being able to work in the field of rocketry.
~ Dieter K. Huzel
and that amplifies the bio-force and everything starts. It's like the radiation, the glow, the bio-force gets stronger and awareness. Every member of the population is...there's a unity that happens like everyone's on the same page connected and the field of the planet is strengthened. It changes the field of the planet.
~ Dolores Cannon
The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, I'd be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.
~ Don Winslow
The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
~ Wilhelm Wundt