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Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics. -- Stephen Hawking
Examples are few of men ruined by giving. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. -- Matt Prior
Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven. -- Chuck Martin
Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom. -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad". -- William C. Brown
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority. -- Juvenal
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. -- Augustus Hare
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. -- Robert Cecil
Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics. -- John William Strutt
We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant. -- Heinrich Rohrer
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind. -- Michel de Montaigne
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines. -- Laurel Clark
Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter, and mind. Only philosophical reactionaries, like Noam Chomsky, claim that they are and will remain mysteries. -- Mario Bunge
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression. -- Robert Nozick
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. -- Henry Fielding
This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God. -- Noah Cicero
Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mattoid is a miscreant who seeks to elevate himself by destroying society. Examples include the Rothschilds, David Rockefeller, Franklin Roosevelt, Meyer Lansky, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Hamilton, and Josef Stalin. Often mattoids are of high intelligence, tainted geniuses, despite their flawed character and lack of any morality. -- Oliver Cromwell
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples. -- William Morris Hunt
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. -- Alexander Pope
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -- Roy L. Smith
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. -- Andre Breton
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough. -- Douglas Horton
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from. -- John Caudwell
Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy. -- Shawn Achor
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. -- Gary Ross
It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples. -- Marcus Buckingham
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change. -- Michael Specter
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. -- Paul Klee
And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping. -- Alberto Juantorena
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority. -- Jim Carrey
In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples. -- Marianne Williamson
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes. -- Jack Canfield
Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them. -- Margaret Chan
The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that. -- Marjane Satrapi
History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate. -- Vint Cerf
I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples... but often, environmentalism is used to blackmail companies. -- Vladimir Putin
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this. -- Richard P. Feynman
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. -- Paul Johnson
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock. -- Frans de Waal
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Begin with the simplest examples. -- David Hilbert
Programming is usually taught by examples. -- Niklaus Wirth
History is philosophy teaching by examples. -- Lord Bolling-broke
Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves. -- Josh Billings
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. -- Juvenal
College kids, don't be taking examples from me. -- Darrell Hammond
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. -- George Will
Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences. -- George Gaylord Simpson
Parents should be the most important examples for their children. -- Christy Turlington
The best way to understanding is a few good examples. -- Isaac Newton
Have good examples and stories to drive home your content. -- Tony Robbins
Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples. -- Yishai Schwartz
Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think. -- Jools Holland
Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism. -- Bernard-Henri Levy
History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war. -- Shigeru Yoshida
Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others. -- Maya Angelou
Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best. -- John Donne
Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples. -- Bob Goff
Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience. -- Muhammad Abduh
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. -- Jack Miller
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. -- Mikko Hypponen
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. -- Steven Pinker
There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz. -- Zooey Deschanel
People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives. -- Coretta Scott King
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples. -- Seneca the Younger
I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument. -- Mason Cooley
Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care -- Pope Francis
Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated storiesCourageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time. -- David M. Raup
Our role models today 60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be -- Prince Ea
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching -- Roy L. Smith
Look at Israel. Israel is a great country for examples on how to do security. -- Joe Arpaio
There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered. -- Alex Ebert
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. -- John Webster
May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world. -- Thomas S. Monson
History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive. -- Francis James Grimke
Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph. -- Mark Dever
Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples. -- Wilbert J. McKeachie
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies. -- Barry Ritholtz
I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me. -- Jared Leto
I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way. -- Jamie Moyer
Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm. -- Deepak Chopra
You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation. -- Paul Krugman
We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example. -- Shonda Rhimes
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. -- George R. R. Martin
Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes? -- Hugh Dalton
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. -- Niklaus Wirth
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have. -- James S. Coleman
As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions. -- Michael Behe
The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember. -- Russell Simmons
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. -- Henry Fielding
I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me. -- Brit Marling
My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. -- Jeff Bridges
The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science. -- Lewis Wolpert
So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't. -- Taylor Swift
The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless. -- Bob Beauprez
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. -- Elliott Abrams
You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s. -- Charlton Heston
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having. -- Charlie Munger
All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas. -- Paulo Coelho
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him. -- Brendan Behan
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. -- Samuel Daniel
The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. -- Eric Alterman
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. -- John Locke
History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man. -- Albert Einstein
Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ. -- Chuck Smith
The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves. -- Bill McKibben
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything. -- Paul Valery
There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free. -- Kid Rock

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