Systematic Quotes

• Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

  Karl Popper

  Funny, Art, Crazy

  1982 Quoted in the Observer,1Aug.

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• Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

  H. G. Wells

  Writing, Ambition, Literature

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• Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

  Kevin Kelly

  Research, Literature, Outcomes

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• My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Courage, Determination, Persistence

  Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation, October 24, 1947.

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• Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Effort, Courses

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• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  Gary Becker

  Yield, Interesting, Analysis

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• It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Tests, Solutions, Candidates

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• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Religious, Squares

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• I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Communication, Groups, Use

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• The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Foundation

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• Science is the systematic classification of experience.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Experience, Classification

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind”

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• Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

  Henry Adams

  Organization, Hatred, Politics

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• Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Animal, Chinese, Principles

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• I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

  Erykah Badu

  Love Life, Vegetarian, Judgmental

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• Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

  Jacques Chirac

  War, Borders, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Writing, Written

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, (p. 432), 1981.

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• I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

  Rachel Corrie

  People, Destruction, Ability

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Science, Together

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

  David Horowitz

  Years, Decision, Foundation

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• There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

  Sandy Berger

  Country, Effort, United States

  "Will Bush forgive and forget?" by John King, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2004.

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• The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

  Talcott Parsons

  Everyday, Consideration, Theory

  Talcott Parsons (1937). “The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers”

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• In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

  Jack Steinberger

  Education, Children, School

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• Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Government, Effort

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Meditation Practice, Trying

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

  Charles Bass

  Military, Technology, Effort

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