#precise

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#atoms #belief #contingent #forces #heart

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain. ↗

— Eric Liu

#china #debate #gain #game #locked

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computational #hope #i #make #metaphor

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible. ↗

— Theresa May

#cookbook #cooking #house #i #inaccessible

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#fades #feeling #larger #lighter #never

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#bonds #country #crisis #debt #dramatic

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#board #doing #go #good #i

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#because #frame #important #much #precise

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hardest #just #our #precisely #pride

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #exists #felt #forces #him