Anomalies Quotes

• We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Life, Powerful

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• Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fall, Ties, Discovery

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• Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Science, Fit, Made

  R. A. Lafferty, Damon Knight (1991). “Lafferty in Orbit”, p.79, Wildside Press LLC

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• How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lying, Reality, Deceit

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• You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

  Keith Rabois

  Looks, Behaviour, Want

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• But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

  Stephen Cambone

  Space, Desire, Analysis

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• The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

  Imre Lakatos

  Confused, Ocean, Becoming

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  Walter Bagehot

  People, Poverty, Bells

  Walter Bagehot (1944). “Literary Studies”

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• As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

  Simon Newcomb

  Real, Sensual, Navy

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Our most exciting discoveries come from studying anomalies. The once-in-1000 occurrence is worth getting detail on.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Discovery, Details, Study

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

  Franklin Pierce

  Party, Patriotic, Government

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• I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

  Alicia Witt

  School, Thinking, Experience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Artist, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Diversity, Doe, Sickness

  Georges Canguilhem (2000). “A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem”

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• Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix.

  LeCrae

  Waiting, Fit, Norm

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• Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

  Steve Carell

  Mom, Writing, Letters

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• To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Flower, Thinking

  "The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures", Vol. 1, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2006.

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• We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Men, Soul

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• You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

  Warren Buffett

  Rocks, Maps, Littles

  Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett Q&, #106335, boards.fool.com. May 6, 2005.

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• We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.

  Arthur Kleinman

  Mean, Thinking, World

  Arthur Kleinman (2007). “What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Dark, Vampire, Outsiders

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jun 24, 2014

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• When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

  Robert Venturi

  Order, Giving, Architecture

  Robert Venturi, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1977). “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture”, p.41, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

  Paul Gauguin

  Law, Weakness, Development

  Paul Gauguin (1987). “Gauguin: a retrospective”, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates

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• The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

  T Bone Burnett

  Ideas, Perfect, Attractive

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• A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Alive, Earth, Faces

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.799, Xist Publishing

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