Unfamiliar Quotes - Page 8

• Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Sunday, Today

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• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Two, Body

  "Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 9, 1961.

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• History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Memories, History, Overcoming

  James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”

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• Love is the unfamiliar Name
  Behind the hands that wove
  The intolerable shirt of flame
  Which human power cannot remove.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Love Is, Flames

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)

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• It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

  Steven Weinberg

  Future, Science, Extinction

  The First Three Minutes epilogue (1977)

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• They be starin at the money like it's unfamiliar

  Drake

  Humble

  Song: Successful

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• If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

  William James

  Running, Couple, Educational

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

  Hippocrates

  Writing, Plain Language, Use

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• Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us with yet more that will likely be unfamiliar to most readers. But the real treat of the essays is how they will make Artificial Life researchers squirm as they recognize their own intellectual sleights of hand exposed for all to see. Those researchers and the Genesis Redux contributors are all ultimately interested in what it is that truly distinguishes us beings from other lumps of matter.

  Rodney Brooks

  Real, Philosophical, Hands

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• All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

  June Jordan

  History, African American, Soul

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.

  Marc Chagall

  Mean, Eye, Psychics

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• Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Family, Daughter, Technology

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• A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house… The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Home, Eye, Army

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• The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Light, Community

  "Donald Davidson: A Short Introduction". Book by Kathrin Glüer, p. 213, December 5, 2011.

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• The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Science, Law, Research

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• I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Forever, Awful

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2002). “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories of the Supernatural”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

  Albert Einstein

  Squares, Light, Average

  "Atomic Physics" by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd, 1948.

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• Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

  William Safire

  Tired, Needs, Nuance

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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• Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Travel, Home, Heart

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

  David Trimble

  Night, Mountain, Attention

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• I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free.

  Taeyang

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.

  James Hillman

  Inspirational, Heart, Angel

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• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

  Paul Fix

  Funny, Thinking, People

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

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• An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt".

  Derek Bok

  Men, Views, Issues

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• One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Needs, May, Consciousness

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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