#applied

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#cases #civil #each #earth #general

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#applied #because #being #believe #book

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. ↗

— William Temple

#applied #else #ever #great #himself

Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ↗

— China Miéville

#practical-applications #practice #problem-solving #procrastination #theory

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level. ↗

— John Dyer

#art #consider #course #degree #directly

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#applied #only #science #sciences #such

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#been #certain #church #churches #consistency

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #faced #great

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#applied #basic #been #biochemistry #contributed

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#applied #atlanta #become #came #canada