Study Quotes - Page 31

The physical basis for sociopathy is approximately 50 percent inheritable, which sounds more dramatic than it probably is, because most personality characteristics that psychologists test for and study the genetics of are about 50 percent inheritable. Introversion, extroversion, it turns out that they're about 50 percent inheritable, which means that somehow sociopathy is physical, it's organic.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

I would like to study Judaism. I feel that my own Jewish education was really quite superficial from a certain point of view. Although I think the values were very clear and were presented very clearly, there's - there were aspects of the whole tradition that were not emphasized. And, you know, I've come to those areas myself as I've grown older. But I would like to go deeper.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

Success is a refined study of the obvious

The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions monolith, and James Loeb, of the Kuhn-Loeb banking family. Loeb's relatives, the Warburgs, were banking partners of William Rockefeller, and both families were responsible for setting up the American Harriman family - also movers and shakers in eugenics - in business.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.

It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.