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1342 British Quotes
1342 British Quotes
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
Francis Crick
Biology
Physics
Chemistry
Fact
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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
Francis Crick
Paper
Tedious
Difficult
Form
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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.
Francis Crick
Structure
Piano
Flight
Stair
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What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built with chemical components and that are often modified by other, later, mechanisms added to the earlier ones.
Francis Crick
Mechanism
Chemical
Modified
Biology
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Francis Crick
DNA
Proof
God
Exxstence
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While Occam’s razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.
Francis Crick
Physical
Dangerous
Biology
Simplicity
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While DNA could be claimed to be both simple and elegant, it must be remembered that DNA almost certainly originated fairly close to the origin of life when things were necessarily simple or they would not have got going.
Francis Crick
Life
Elegant
DNA
Origin
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
Naomi Watts
Child
Wild
Oh
Definitely
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F. H. Bradley
Cease
Interest
Persons
Shock
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. Bradley
Care
Fear
Man
Who
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. Bradley
Best
Everything
Evil
Necessary
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley
Condemns
He
Man
Ready
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
F. H. Bradley
Children
Doll
Girl
Her
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
B. H. Liddell Hart
Bar
Chief
Complacent
Knowledge
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
B. H. Liddell Hart
Action
Categories
Combat
Elements
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B. H. Liddell Hart
Decide
Helplessness
Hope
Hopelessness
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart
Counting
Dead
Drain
Fruitful
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
B. H. Liddell Hart
Action
Discover
Duty
Endeavor
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B. H. Liddell Hart
Dependent
Few
Guerrilla
Kind
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. Liddell Hart
Historian
Mark
Sake
Search
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis
Away
Ever
Given
Nothing
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis
Because
Believe
Christianity
Else
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C. S. Lewis
Cut
Deserts
Down
Educator
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
C. S. Lewis
Christ
Decay
Despair
Else
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I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
Richard Branson
Freedom
Gives
I Love
Life
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I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.
Richard Branson
Each
Family
Felt
Life
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The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
Richard Branson
Around
Attempt
Balloons
Finding
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And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
Richard Branson
Challenge
Obviously
Our
Own
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
Richard Branson
Airline
Create
Else
Experience
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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
Richard Branson
Backing
Between
Business
Dividing
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson
Certainly
Dyslexic
Failed
Grasp
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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard Branson
Doing
Falling
Following
Learn
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'
Richard Branson
Anything
Attitude
Day
Enjoy
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My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.
Richard Branson
Any
Around
Invest
Money
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Art
Friendship
Give
Philosophy
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis
Cell
Darkness
Diminish
Glory
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C. S. Lewis
Aim
Earth
Heaven
Neither
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. Lewis
Achievement
Fails
Failures
Finger
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
Noticed
Often
Original
Originality
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis
Ahead
Behind
Better
Kind
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
True
Christianity
False
Importance
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. Lewis
Always
Direct
Implement
Keep
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
C. S. Lewis
World
Christ
Died
Individually
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis
Walking
Adult
Come
Fact
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis
History
Ineffective
Largely
Most
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis
Courage
Every
Form
Point
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis
Expense
Gratified
Instinct
Claim
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis
Capitalists
Criminals
Cut
Enemies
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Everyone
Future
Hour
Minutes
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis
Creatures
Dark
Eyes
Found
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