Simple Quotes - page 10

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied. (Margaret Mead)
Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things. View quote
Dolly Parton
We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science-if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in reconfiguring a host crab as a support system, all underscore the myopia of our conventional wisdom in regarding rhizocephalans as degenerate parasites because the adult anatomy of internal roots and external sac seem so simple. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Sure, it's simple, writing for kids. Just as simple as bringing them up. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people! View quote
Henri Barbusse
Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin. (Sin-Itiro Tomonaga)
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers - the whole spectrum of sedative drugs. View quote
William S. Burroughs
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity. View quote
Gertrude Stein
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. View quote
Goldie Hawn
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time. View quote
Walter Raleigh
From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. (Ian McEwan)
Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame. View quote
Ian McEwan
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot be reduced among them, and that one can define no further. These are the primitive ideas of the science; it is necessary to acquire them through experience, or through induction; it is impossible to explain them by deduction. View quote
Giuseppe Peano
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion. View quote
George Bernard Shaw