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Quotes About Anomalies

Expectations and anomalies are mutually constitutive- they make each other. To assert that a person or an event is analogous cannot help but serve to create and reinforce other expectations
~ Philip J. Deloria
What they find is that there are anomalies in the way these individuals process material that has emotional implications. That there's this dissociation between the linguistic meaning of words and the emotional connotations. Somehow they don't put them together. Various parts of the limbic system just don't light up."     And
~ Jon Ronson
The only thing police patrol cops - in certain situations - are expert at is spotting anomalies. When you are a black person that is driving in a place that you stick out, that's all they're going to see.
~ Cheo Hodari Coker
How I changed my mind about women in leadership came through the gradual piling up of anomalies against a powerful but unsustainable paradigm.
~ Alan F. Johnson
How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy--all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
~ RANDOLPH SILLIMAN BOURNE
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
~ Imre Lakatos
We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing
~ Eavan Boland
discovery starts with anomalies.
~ Richard H. Thaler
Só ela pode dizer ao homem de onde ele vem, para onde vai, por que está na Terra, e justificar todas as anomalias e todas as aparentes injustiças que a vida apresenta.
~ Allan Kardec
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
~ Robert Fulghum
the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours'.7
~ Dominic Sandbrook
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
~ Robert Venturi
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word.
~ Stacy Schiff
Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is that major rises and falls in prices are actually inevitable.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A large and growing body of academic research suggests there are market anomalies that can be exploited to beat a strict index approach. Some of that research has been recognized with Nobels in economic science - William F. Sharpe in 1990 and Eugene F. Fama in 2013.
~ James B. Stewart
In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that wants to believe that the text is somehow special. Numerological tricks, for example, can demonstrate that William Shakespeare wrote the 'King James Bible.'
~ Benjamin Wittes
Mais vous avez dû tomber amoureux, n'est-ce pas ? Vous êtes devenu du jour au lendemain un homme heureux ! C'est ça ? Les gens heureux, tant qu'ils sont heureux, ne remarquent pas les anomalies, mais ce n'est que temporaire. Les anomalies sont toujours là, à côté d'eux!
~ Andreï Kourkov
Ancient priests and builders must have known about the earth's magnetism and its strange fluctuations. They located their temples, mounds, and pyramids in the dead center of magnetic anomalies. And they laid out long, arrow-straight tracks or "leys" between these magnetic points.
~ John A. Keel
We are dealing with three types of phenomena in these cases. The first is the winged man; the second is a giant bird, so huge it is a biological impossibility; third, we have a monstrous demon with red eyes, bat's wings, and a body closely human in form. All three are probably interrelated.
~ John A. Keel
We did politics awfully well. The problem with that is there may have been something to the fact that people would rather watch space monsters, enigmas, and anomalies than politics.
~ Edward Gross