Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts. . . . Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.
[Nikola Tesla] was thinking of parts actually moving, like exchanging positions in space through time. This would go over here, then that would go over there, and then something else would happen.
We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
My first vivid memory is. . . when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
Do not think your story [for a one-person show] is unique. . . . your story is the same as millions of others. But that's o. k. - you just need to find the one or two things that makes your story interesting enough to justify someone leaving their apartment and exchanging currency.
When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Every man lives by exchanging.
Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of course, it’s the exact opposite—you’re the self to you and I’m the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally. ” “I still don’t get it, but it sure feels good. ” “That’s the whole idea,” the girl said.
If we, on our most fundamental level, are packets of quantum energy constantly exchanging information with this heaving energy sea, it means that all of us connect with each other and the world at the level of the very undercoat of our being. It also means that we have the power to access much more information about the world than we realize.
A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.
Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.
Exchanging of unfriendly statements, rejecting any possibility of cooperation and interaction in combating terror, especially in Syria and so on and so forth. So it's not something that contributes to global stability and security.
