Quotes About Comparative

The modern tendency towards increasing specialization in all branches of research and scholarship has discouraged comparative studies of the arts; and what we seldom do we generally distrust. But our distrust of analogies was not shared by the sixteenth century, which inherited from antiquity a habit of drawing parallels as a matter of course.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

It is common to find that two traders both think their counterparts are idiotically overpaying: that is the beauty of Ricardo's magic trick.

it takes a powerful motivation to lead to murder. That's why people don't usually murder comparative strangers.

'Preacher' really appeals to my iconoclastic nature because I'm a student of comparative world religions since my early 20s, so I love shows that really challenge what you think about all these things. I think it's genius. I was so excited there was a role I could play on it.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.

Pitch is closely related to frequency, but the two are not the same thing. Pitch is mostly used in the comparative framework of sounds or tones that make up a musical scale. So while frequency is a physical property of sound—it's a measurement of the number of cycles

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

The label derives from comparative psychology, the name of a field that traditionally has viewed animals as mere stand-ins for humans: a monkey is a simplified human, a rat a simplified monkey, and so

Ironically, the study of animal cognition not only raises the esteem in which we hold other species, but also teaches us not to overestimate our own mental complexity. We

A book of the Indians (that is, Kalîlah wa-Dimnah) teaches that a scholar's knowledge accompanies him and provides for him wherever he goes, and thus is comparable to the strength of a lion which always stays with him.

I'm as good as her dog

Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

Ricardo was right in thinking that very different nations may be able to trade to mutual gain, but comparative advantage is not only what you are blessed with: it is something you can build.

In Tinkham (1993), two experiments compared the learning rates of the same ESL learners who were learning semantically related and then semantically unrelated target vocabulary items. Results of this study showed that the learners were able to learn the semantically unrelated target items much more quickly than they could do with the semantically related items.

It is of especial importance for me to know as much as possible about primitive psychology, mythology, archæology and comparative religion, for the reason that these fields afford me priceless analogies with which I can enrich the associations of my patients.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them

What was needed was a large-scale comparative study of different approaches to inoculation to discover which, in practical terms, was likely to be successful. But how to design such an experiment in the eighteenth century? There was only one answer: orphans.

Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment.

As a matter of comparative, the U.S. citizens - the Puerto Ricans that live in the United States - have much better incomes, more than twice as much, participate in the labor force of greater scales, have better results in the education system, and so forth.