Direct may refer to:
- Direct current, a direct flow of electricity
- Direct examination, the in-trial questioning of a witness by the party who has called him or her to testify
- Direct sum of modules, a construction in abstract algebra which combines several vector spaces
- Direct (Vangelis album), 1988 album by Vangelis
- Direct (EP), a 2002 EP by The 77s
- Direct (Tower of Power album), 1981
- DirectX, a proprietary dynamic media platform
- Mars Direct, a proposal for a manned mission to Mars
- DIRECT, a proposed space shuttle-derived launch vehicle
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Famous quotes containing the word direct:
“One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.”
—Isaiah Berlin (b. 1909)
“A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is direct and simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.”
—Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)