Datum Quotes

#1. It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment inasmuch as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.

Kenneth Frampton

#2. The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

Bill Buford

#3. Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Datum: At least one-third of ancient rulers' seers and magicians were in fact fired or killed early in their tenure because it emerged that the bulk of what they foresaw or intuited was irrelevant. Not incorrect, just irrelevant, pointless.

David Foster Wallace

#5. I also get a perverse pleasure from correcting students who refer to an important piece of data or write that this data is important. (Data is the plural of datum, I tell them, so one ought to say, The datum is important; The data are important.) Yet

Steven Pinker

#6. I am a single, useless snail-loathing datum.

Carl Zimmer

#7. the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case of affine geometry, we have a definite invariant quadratic form, viz. the metrical groundform once and for all as an absolute datum.

Hermann Weyl

#8. The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

James Mark Baldwin

#9. The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.

Terence McKenna

#10. Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.

John Dewey

#11. The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.

William James

#12. Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree : you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say 'this we know'.

T. S. Eliot

#13. And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

Terence McKenna

#14. The real point of the matter is that what we call a 'wrong datum' is one which is inconsistent with all other known data. It is our only criterion for right and wrong.

Isaac Asimov

#15. The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

Albert Einstein

#16. The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#17. If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.

Robert Kroetsch

#18. From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.

Ray Bradbury

#19. In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable.

Chris Murray

#20. My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

Emily Dickinson

#21. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

#22. Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

Sunday Adelaja

#23. She had drawn strength from everyone else's weakness, hoping that her adrenaline-fueled bravery would carry her safely back to normality,

Robert Galbraith

#24. For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#25. In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.

Henry A. Kissinger

#26. Life is a gracious sacred-breathe.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.

Sheryl Crow

#28. I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

Ned Vizzini

#29. Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Ani DiFranco

#30. It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Frank Herbert