Top 31 Detects Quotes
#1. A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
Walter Savage Landor
#2. It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
T. S. Eliot
#3. TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.
Matt Ridley
#4. The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares.
Georg Brandes
#5. The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.
John Ruskin
#6. What's the detector?" Thomas asked. "It detects stuff," Brenda replied curtly. Thomas wrinkled his face at her.
James Dashner
#8. The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.
Max Heindel
#9. A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
Carolus Linnaeus
#10. One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.
Marianne Moore
#11. We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.
Martin Chalfie
#12. We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.
George Henry Lewes
#14. The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.
George Eliot
#16. The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand.
Louis Agassiz
#17. When an officer of the law detects a vice in himself, he knows enough to start looking for its presence in others.
Norman Mailer
#19. Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues, who then see it with increasing clarity. Perhaps a myriad of unknown senses are only awaiting our consciousness.
Marilyn Ferguson
#20. Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#21. We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#22. Impatience is not the fastest way of getting to where your treasures are. It is the quickest way of by-passing them without even knowing. Keep calm; be patient!
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
#24. We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.
E.P. Thompson
#25. The Facts were right there waiting for me,hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest
Ernest Cline
#26. An eye for an eye.
And the whole world goes blind.
Lauren Oliver
#27. Monogamy is not found in any social, group-living primate except - if the standard narrative is to be believed - us.
Christopher Ryan
#28. Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!
Ron Taffel
#29. Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and in all cases, their size and their material construction are totally different matters even though they affect one another.
John Tyler Bonner
#31. There are plenty of directors who work with the same actors over and over, many more times than I have. Like I have worked with Bill Nighy more times than I have worked with Kate, but I'm not married to Bill Nighy.
Len Wiseman
