Quotes About Tool

Stakman did not view science as a disinterested quest for knowledge. It was a tool—maybe the tool—for human betterment. Not all sciences were equally valuable, as he liked to explain. "Botany," he said, "is the most important of all sciences, and plant pathology is one of its most essential branches.

we are a kind of elaborate tool in the unconscious service of the DNA swimming around inside us, determined (if strings of molecules can be determined) to make more copies of itself.

Nationalism, the revolutionary theorist Rosa Luxemburg warned, is always a tool used to betray the working class. It is, she wrote, "an instrument of counterrevolutionary class policy."76 It unleashes powerful forms of indoctrination.

A hammer looks like a useful tool to a carpenter; the nail has a different impression altogether.

Some people will not respond to reason. Others refuse to consider alternatives to their normal pattern of behavior. In such cases, an unexpected breaking of one's own patterns can be an effective tool.

If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool.

didn't have a gun myself. I never do. Guns are a crutch for those who aren't in good enough shape to run. I did have my Swiss Army knife, but that was just in case I needed a compact burglary tool.

I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.

If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.

Man is a tool-using animal.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Courage is a tool and a weapon. With just a little, you can build your life and use it to fend for yourself in the world. It

Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She'd learned that one at her mother's knee.

A blade's personal. It's an extension of the person using it.

Entonces, será que lo ha asumido por sí mismo. Por la idea que tiene del mundo, un mundo en el que los hombres no emplean palas para golpear cadáveres y darles una forma más conveniente para su posterior procesamiento

I had lost my respect for rationality long ago. The intellect is not the tool for discerning the future, it never has been and it never will be. It ranks somewhere behind random guessing and answering every question with the statement 'It'll be fine.

My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.

Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.

Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.