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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beforehand #bottom #certain #experience #find

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#essential #essential thing #good #good script #maybe

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#genetic #i #making #mean #modification

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#issues #journalists #leadership #pay #pay attention

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #background #behave #common #conduct

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China. ↗

— John Pomfret

#fourteen #his #i #interest #kissinger

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#courtship #dream #wake #wedlock

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#apprenticeship #craft #else #like #most

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#continue #end #friendship #which #will