Harmful Effect

Famous quotes containing the words harmful effect, harmful and/or effect:

    I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion ... [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)