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- Nov 07, 2020
Formulate Quotes
Turning questions into answers, one idea at a time.
These quotes explore what it means to formulate an idea, from framing a scientific concept to asking a novel question you cannot yet answer. Several reflect on how the act of formulating a thought stretches the mind and often leads somewhere unexpected.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who better to help formulate and to lead debate on fighting ISIS and Islamic extremists than an Arabic-speaking former CIA case officer who has been fighting the war on terrorism?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they'll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That's the game we play when we're hearing a story unfold. That's part of what sucks us into a movie.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust and the Squid,' I received truly hundreds of letters - I'm still receiving them - and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the mid-1990s, I collected thousands of hackberry fruits from trees all across the Midwest. I chemically analyzed each seed in order to formulate an equation relating the hackberry's mineral makeup to the summer temperature under which it grew.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
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- Nov 07, 2020