Famous quotes containing the words the best, the, alan, parsons and/or project:
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“A wise old owl lived in an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;”
—Edward Hersey Richards (b. 1874)
“Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.”
—Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)
“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
—Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)
“The candidate tells us we are the “backbone of the State,” and we know that it is true, not because we are possessed of certain endowed virtues, but because we are a majority and have the vote.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)