Extrapolated Quotes

#1. The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing product of the indigenous science, a most sophisticated technology that the Waorani extrapolated from an ancient myth.

Jonathon Miller Weisberger

#2. Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Memory was a story you told yourself about yourself, extrapolated from a tiny dot-matrix of facts.

Jeremy Dyson

#4. We didn't admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.

Rexford Tugwell

#5. Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned.

Peter F. Hamilton

#6. where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom*
*Made it up
and extrapolated from associated sources** **had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too.

Terry Pratchett

#7. The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.

Werner Heisenberg

#8. I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.

Roger Lewin

#10. We should not expect too much from faith," he said. "Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly.

Margaret Atwood

#11. A chain of follies had put him there: Call's abrupt decision to become a cattleman and his own decision, equally abrupt, to try and rescue a girl foolish enough to be taken in by Jake Spoon. None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked.

Larry McMurtry

#12. An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.

Herbert Hoover

#13. We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

H.L. Mencken

#14. As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

David Brooks