#outcome

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#cannot #colleagues #critics #either #feel

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off. ↗

— Charles Fried

#committed #courts #ideologically #law #off

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#columbus #landed #much #native #native americans

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#give #larger #national #outcome #people

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#colonial #exemplified #grid #largely #material

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#after #change #had #i #i think

I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#around #bring #discuss #evidence #having

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration. ↗

— Mario Monti

#bound #breakup #decisions #deeper #europe

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#approaches #bbc #decisions #established #final