All Quotes

Dartmouth is a small school with high-caliber teaching. Our classes were all taught by professors, not teaching assistants. I felt like that was a school where I could make a big splash. The opportunities would be grander and more robust for me there than at a school with 40,000 students.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.
‐‐ Sid Waddell

Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
‐‐ George C. Williams

Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.
‐‐ Trofim Lysenko

Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.
‐‐ Trofim Lysenko

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
‐‐ Trofim Lysenko

Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
‐‐ George Gaylord Simpson

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
‐‐ Daniel Dennett

Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
‐‐ Trofim Lysenko

Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.
‐‐ Ben Stein

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson

Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.
‐‐ Thomas Piketty

Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
‐‐ Jose Ferreira

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
‐‐ Hans Rosling

Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

'Data exhaust' is probably my least favorite phrase in the big data world 'cause it sounds like something you're trying to get rid of or something noxious that comes out of the back of your car.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Data helps solve problems.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.
‐‐ Steven Levitt

Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
‐‐ Leroy Hood

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
‐‐ Clifford Stoll

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
‐‐ Ben Goldacre

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.
‐‐ David McCandless

Data is the new oil.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

Data is very important, but you have to be good at reading the data in an emotional way. If you look at a selling report, there's an emotional trend to what's selling.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
‐‐ George V. Higgins

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
‐‐ Taraji P. Henson

Date night is important, even if it's going to Schlotzsky's.
‐‐ Brad Paisley

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.
‐‐ Peter Warlock

Dates are always hard. You don't want to be too dressed up or too casual.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.
‐‐ Rachelle Lefevre

Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.
‐‐ Rachel Bilson

'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt