#comparison

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#detailed #discoveries #fossil #four #had

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. ↗

— Barbara Kolb

#composing #contemplative #doing #emotional #feminine

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#act #animal #box #comparison #does

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#been #brain #brains #brought #certainly

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#comparison #country #few #financed #holland

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#billie #billie holiday #comparison #creative #emotion

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#assumption #case #comparisons #created #each

People will always make comparisons. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#comparisons #make #people #will

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt. ↗

— Robert Blair

#blunt #comparison #guilt #how #those

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#coming #comparison #early #feminists #industrialized