Indispensable Quotes - Page 14

• Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Science, Building

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• One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Stupidity, Growth

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• Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Appreciation, Determination, Real

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• Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

  Jeff Raikes

  People, Tools, Use

  "Microsoft buys in Norwegian know-how" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 08, 2008.

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• Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.

  David Levering Lewis

  Voice, Movement, Biographies

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• Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.

  Herb Boyd

  Black, Study, Prove

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• To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, People, Abuse

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• The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields.With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Artist, Way, Fields

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• I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

  Jean Cocteau

  Poetry, Poetry Is, Knows

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• What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

  Martin Buber

  Ego, Given, Including

  Rivka Horwitz, Martin Buber (1988). “Buber's way to "I and thou": the development of Martin Buber's thought and his "Religion as presence" lectures”, Jewish Pubn Society

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• A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Elements, Blossoming

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

  Wendell Berry

  Reading, Years, World

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Vocabulary, Rivalry, Connotation

  "Kafka and His Precursors" (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

  Brian Tracy

  Achievement

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• A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

  Man Ray

  Ideas, Realization, Certain

  Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Elements, Fabulous, Splendor

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• I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, Drawing, Parent

  "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.

  Max Planck

  Taken, Knowledge, Responsibility

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

  Max Planck

  Success, Failure, Science

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• The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.

  Ernst Mach

  Simple, Example, Development

  Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Corruption, Well Being

  Speech, Washington, D.C., 14 Apr. 1906 See Bunyan 6

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• For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Smoking, Forever

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• I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, People, Realization

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• Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, People, Goal

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.248, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.

  Tad R. Callister

  Book, Together, Doctrine

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