Archibald Hill Quotes

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

Archibald Hill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: psychologist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 26, 1886 - June 3, 1977

Topics

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Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

Andrew Weil

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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

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What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

Michael Haneke

I AmMeStupidTreatSeriouslyMore

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

Stephen McCauley

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For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change.

Steven Van Zandt

ChangeMoneyMeWorldPoliticalOut

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

Steve Rushin

AgePowerMysteryKnowEverything

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

Tom Noonan

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But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

Michael N. Castle

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I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Douglas Trumbull

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I have always had confidence in my ability; I knew I'd get a chance coming here. That's one of the main reasons why I signed for Tottenham.

Dele Alli

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When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

David Ulevitch

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My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Chico Hamilton

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