Discarded Quotes - Page 3

• It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Morning, Good Day, Science

  On Aggression ch. 2 (1966)

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Math, Science

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Usa, Environmental

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• If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

  John Cusack

  Stars, Used, Adoration

  "Being John Cusack". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Cheer, Turkeys, Long

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• As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.

  Antony Sher

  Beautiful, Kings, Sunday

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• Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.

  David Berlinski

  Dark, Theory Of Evolution, Lasts

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• Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Book, Mind, Age

  "Stealing America's Future: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Liberalism". Book by William Steiner, 2010.

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• You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

  Chris Fabry

  Memories, Heart, May

  Chris Fabry, Gary D. Chapman (2011). “A Marriage Carol”, p.6, Moody Publishers

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• The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

  Michael Crichton

  Our World, True Power, Profound

  Michael Crichton (2008). “Timeline”, p.480, Random House

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• So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Maturity, Youth, Yearning

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• There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.

  Tahir Shah

  Glasses, Unseen, Elbows

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Discipline, Imagination

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• Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change to be brought off, which I'd missed the day before.

  Conrad Aiken

  Morning, Yellow, Paper

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• While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

  Chris Matthews

  Relationship, Mind, May

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• He balled up my discarded sweatshirt and put it against his shoulder. “Go on,” he said. “I don’t bite.” “And from what I hear, that’s a good thing.” He gave a rumbling chuckle. “Yeah, it is.” I leaned against his shoulder.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Goes On, Good Things, Yeah

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.226, Penguin Group

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• I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

  Claude Monet

  Appreciate, Painting, Pleasure

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Facts, Stubborn

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• You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Long, Razors

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.305, Random House

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• For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis; it can be discarded easily into the dustbin. It is not needed.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Meditation, Useless

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• The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.

  William H. Masters

  Gay, Simple, Today

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• I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are actually united, when the tormenting conflicts or contradictions between my consciousness and my body will have been factually resolved or discarded.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Science, Psychology, Important

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• Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.

  George H. Smith

  Jobs, Thinking, Religion

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.110, Prometheus Books

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• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

  Thomas Nagel

  Common Sense, Psychology, Ordinary

  Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.166, Oxford University Press

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• Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, Important, Raw Materials

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.4, Basic Books

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