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"We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally."
"I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy."
"Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician."
"New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained."
"The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines."
"Health is actually the foundational tool to help us live the life."
"It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not."
"I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful."
"The right tools are just as important as the makeup itself."
"The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket."
"Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build."
"Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole."
"All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses."
"We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public."
"Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?"
"As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control."
"The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise."
"The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool."
"If we don’t uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time, that will make us less safe and that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like Al Qaeda. That’s what I have to keep my eye on."
"I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic."
