#studies

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#alcohol #cigarettes #control #education #family

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#constant #could #enjoyed #fixed #guidance

Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out. ↗

— George Osborne

#conservative #i #independent #just #labour

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. ↗

— William Osler

#does #go #medicine #patients #sails

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#cane #difficult #effect #established #inversion

It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#been #catalysis #chemistry #distinction #extend

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#both #change #does #essential #even

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

#man #memory #mix #ought #pursued

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#because #delights #does #nature #scientist

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#another #enough #field #graduate #highly