#presente

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#being #challenged #concept #done #every

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. ↗

— Horace

#eye #impression #learn #less #makes

When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#country #family #felt #helped #i

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#great #period #pictures #really #represented

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#could #family #me #need #partly

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#brief #dozen #fifty #half #indeed

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#being #candidates #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#beads #board #came #directed #dozen

Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#before #being #choices #cultural #felt

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself. ↗

— Theresa May

#expectation #get #how #in the past #know