Quotes About Study

The main conclusion of Hauser and Singer's study was that there is no statistically significant difference between atheists and religious believers in making these judgements.

Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.

This is a book about thinking. One cannot talk about thinking in the abstract, at least not usefully. But one can talk about thinking about digital filters, and by studying how great scientists thought about digital filters, one learns, however gradually, to think like a great scientist.

In another study, when combined with Prozac, tryptophan increased the speed of antidepressant effects and eliminated the sleep disturbances that Prozac caused.24

Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.

We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre: the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report.

There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty, which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior. None of this, of course, was ever stated: the genteel social Darwinism of the English middle classes always remained implicit.

A few deep breaths would take care of that. She studied the horse and took deep breaths.

There is learning in everything

Yet the study of the Koran revealed that Muhammad himself had had a universal vision and had insisted that all rightly guided religions came from God.

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.

My eyes are brown and my hair is brown. Your eyes are the color of warm chocolate, he said, tilting his head to study her. Your hair isn't brown, but auburn with gold and red threads in it like the finest tapestry.

As you proceed through your study of physics, you will find that every one of the measurable quantities that is discussed can be specified in terms of only four basic dimensions: mass, length, time, and electric charge. In this chapter, we will begin a study of the first three of these.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Philosophy and the study of the real world have the same relation to one another as onanism and sexual love.

One has to 'leave philosophy aside,' one has to leap out of it and devote oneself like an ordinary man to the study of actuality . . . Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as masturbation and sexual love.

Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as masturbation and sexual love.

You don't see the point of English literature?' 'I don't see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?

Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

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

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.