Branches Quotes - Page 5

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a whole new branch for painting. Happily, it doesn't work. It's not a reason for art. Closing something out is not a reason for something to exist.

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower