Quotes About View

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry.

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Britain, of course, had only a dubious right to the high moral view of slavery. British ships had long dominated the slave trade, and only in 1838 had slavery formally been abolished in the British Empire.

Thou beholdest a spectacle ill-sighted to the eye. (Vulcan)

You should have more faith in mortals," Fletcher countered. "Not all of them are war-hungry simpletons, you know." "No," Skulduggery said, "but they do tend to scare easily and, when people are scared, they lash out." Fletcher adjusted his hair slightly. "You have such a dim view of the people you fight every day to protect.

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.

The conservative view was less literary: its proponents were too busy running businesses and the country to write much.

The word 'darshan' has a double meaning: view as well as worldview, sight as well as insight.

To bewitch" is to me always slightly artificial as it is always put on -- whereas witchery is a form of naturalness that some people can't help, and the world judges that they don't create it ...> November 15 1967 memo to Mrs. Loew Gross re "THE ROMANTIC POINT OF VIEW

What's that terrible phrase one used to hear? "Relate," as in "relate to." People were always relating to themselves, and that's where they went wrong. I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me - projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give 'em what they never knew they wanted.

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.