Quotes of: Clifford Keyword

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us ...

Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.

And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal. Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

James Theodore Bent

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

Howard Carter

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Marvin Minsky

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montagu

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

Donald Johanson

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Serge Lang

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

Wynton Marsalis

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

Martin Rees

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Herb Alpert

Clifford Stern: A strange man... defecated on my sister. Wendy Stern: [pause] ... why?

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Clifford Worley: I haven't seen Clarence. Coccotti: You see that? [Holding a clenched fist in one direction, then striking Clifford with the other] Coccotti: That smarts, doesn't it? Getting slammed in the nose. Fucks you all up. You get that pain sh...

True Romance

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

Sonny Rollins

American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that.

Emilia Clarke

Clifford Stern: [on Lester's films] I can't watch his stuff. It's sub-mental.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Margaret Mead

Halley Reed: After all, he is an American phenomenon. Clifford Stern: Yeah, but so is acid rain.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

[On Lester] Halley Reed: He wants to produce something of mine. Clifford Stern: Yeah. Your first child.

Crimes and Misdemeanors