#degree

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#calculus #came #degree #first #flunked

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#back to school #biology #degree #did #earned

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world. ↗

— Evo Morales

#degrees #four #given #imagine #increase

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #bravery #coming #degrees #dinner

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities. ↗

— Frank Murphy

#back #come #create #degrees #develop

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#certain #certain degree #cynicism #degree #energizing

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day. ↗

— Kristi Noem

#coast #day #degree #east #east coast

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#around #breakthroughs #cannot #clock #compute

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured. ↗

— Origen

#any #being #could #degree #every

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. ↗

— Richard Owen

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