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William Whewell Quotes

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.

William Whewell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: english
Birth: May 24, 1794 - March 6, 1866

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Facts New Class More False System

While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.

Jenny Zhang

School Me Growing Up Immigrants Up

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

Stevie Wonder

Love Woman Man Love Is Clearly

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

Tony Fadell

Work Week You Forget Now Used

I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.

Juan Williams

Writing Night Think You Go Know

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Bono

Change Music Change The World People

We endorse Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos' vision of 'millions of people living and working in space' - this is the heart and soul of the NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement.

Bruce Pittman

Heart Vision Soul Blue Space People

How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Nature Hidden How Works Inscrutable

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

Susan Orlean

I Am Advice Realize Out Used Date

I want to make people laugh first, and that's it.

Sean Hayes

People Laugh Want First Make

So much time and attention has been spent on streaming that we've really gotten away from some of the things that we could have, energywise, put into working together with radio more closely for terrestrial.

Scott Borchetta

Time Working Together Together Radio

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

Mother Philosophy Leisure

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Timothy Noah

Generation Policy Turn Out May Most