Joseph Needham Quotes

Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

Joseph Needham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 9, 1900 - March 24, 1995

Topics

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I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.

Jeremy Grantham

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Interviewing is not a democratic art.

Andrew O'Hagan

ArtDemocraticInterviewing

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

John Crowe Ransom

WordsUniformNowStructureSense

I was a closet stutterer.

John Stossel

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There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

Trent Dilfer

FocusGolfLongPlayOutHere

Nobody has communicated with the public more than Lady Gaga. Ever. I trust the audience, and I'm very impressed. As far as they're concerned, she's part of their family. The only guy who ever did that was Bing Crosby, years ago.

Tony Bennett

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Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur... that's all me.

Tom DeLonge

LifeHopeReflectionI AmSpaceMe

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

Ron Chernow

GreatHeroWashingtonYearsBecoming

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

Ruth Bernhard

BeautyBecauseSensualChosenBeen

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

Michael Keaton

MoneyImaginationParentsMeChicken

Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.

Juan Williams

TogetherDreamPresidentNeverFirst

Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.

Jay Parini

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