Quotes About Study

Of course the scientist's position is subordinate. Our task is to make our fussy natures invisible against the mechanisms of the universe. Truth is not ours to find within, but to search out. We study the known world in order to recognize the remarkable.

That is so. Science directs us to study our maker's creation, but his thoughts on its purpose are only his to reveal.

In short, the books that were of paramount importance in early Christianity were for the most part read out loud by those who were able to read, so that the illiterate could hear, understand, and even study them. Despite the fact that early Christianity was by and large made up of illiterate believers, it was a highly literary religion.

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The study of art is the study of the relative value of things.

Sometimes, the past don't rest so easy. Why else do people study history?

I became particularly interested in how perceptions are formed, how they govern the way we see, and how the way we see governs how we behave. This led me to a study of expectancy theory and self-fulfilling prophecies or the "Pygmalion effect," and to a realization of how deeply imbedded our perceptions are. It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Everything was dragging me toward the arts; even the study of modern philosophy suggested that philosophy was nonsense.

The results of a 1995 study conducted by Harvard Medical School indicated that alcoholics have a better chance of quitting drinking if they don't attend AA than if they do. Americans seldom hear about such results, in part because AA and its sister organizations have actively opposed independent research that could test their programs' effectiveness.

New study reveals men like to cuddle. Another study reveals men will say anything to get into bed with a woman.

El prestigio parece ejercer una especie de magia que da salud —dice Andrew Oswald, uno de los autores del estudio—. Al parecer, subir a ese estrado de Estocolmo añade unos dos años a la vida de un científico».

The results of Tetlock's study were sobering. These most expert of experts—96 percent of them had postgraduate training—"thought they knew more than they knew," he says. How accurate were their predictions? They weren't much better than "dart-throwing chimps," as Tetlock often joked.

Un reciente estudio académico descubrió que un desastre recibe un máximo del 18 por ciento de ayuda solidaria por cada artículo de 700 palabras en los periódicos, y un máximo del 13 por ciento por cada 60 segundos de cobertura en los noticiarios de televisión.

innovation scholar Richard Ogle calls an "idea-space": a complex of tools, beliefs, metaphors, and objects of study.

that in any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

Thatcher's study suggests a counterintuitive notion: the more disorganized your brain is, the smarter you are. It's counterintuitive in part because we tend to attribute the growing intelligence of the technology world with increasingly precise electromechanical choreography

The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.

Human nature may be studied, just as anything else in the world may be. And our decisions on how to organize our lives can take the facts of human nature into account—including the discounting of our own intuitions when a scientific understanding casts them in doubt.

The overall picture that has emerged from the study of the compassionate brain is that there is no empathy center with empathy neurons, but complex patterns of activation and modulation that depend on perceivers' interpretation of the straits of another person and the nature of their relationship with the person.

I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.