modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and. . . it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned
Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late. "
The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.
. . . heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business. . . Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.
. . . the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
Modern European composers. . . have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
The selection of topics for intensive research has often been a function of serendipitous opportunity. My forays into philosophy of education were largely in response to the prompting of friends and my dissatisfaction with much of what - at that time - passed for philosophy of education. I cannot honestly say that there has been either continuity or an overarching schema, though I suspect ,or at least hope, that someone who looked at my oeuvre might conclude that there was a philosophically integrated author.
Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
There are many hearing me who now know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudging at all, requires a new heart.
I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk their comfort, their safety, their lives.