Consistent Quotes - page 2

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism. (Stephen Jay Gould)
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak. View quote
Edward Sapir
It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice. View quote
Aung San
The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience. Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal. View quote
Steven Pinker
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality. View quote
Hans Blix
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator. View quote
William Buckland
Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy. View quote
Kenneth Waltz
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. (Anthony Robbins)
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept. View quote
H. G. Wells
Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being. View quote
Peter Senge
One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number. View quote
Georg Cantor
Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being taken seriously even within the scientific community. An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual aims and religious beliefs. View quote
Fritjof Capra
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism. View quote
Fritjof Capra
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. The verbal interpretation, on the other hand – i. e., the metaphysics of quantum theory – is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model. View quote
Fritjof Capra
The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning. (Wilhelm Reich)
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other. View quote
Larry Wall
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process. View quote
William Winwood Reade
It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale. View quote
Richard Hofstadter
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result - ruthlessness in political life. View quote
Richard Hofstadter