Quotes About Incompatibility

#1. While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach.

Albert Einstein

#2. Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are 'valid,' let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.

Richard Dawkins

#3. I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while they, with their tariff, get the money there is in it.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#4. God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.

Derek Barton

#5. Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

E.F. Schumacher

#6. One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

Daniel Goleman

#7. Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order

William J. Brennan

#8. Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility.

Paul Graham

#10. The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

James Joyce

#11. It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

Gilbert Ryle

#12. There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.

Dada Vaswani

#13. There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

Rubem Alves

#14. In court, pricey lawyers from the city try to answer the question: whose life is more endangered, the spotted owl's or the logger's? Victims of mutual incompatibility, both owl and logger are disappearing in Oregon, a state that once had enough standing timber to rebuild every house in America.

Timothy Egan

#15. Incompatibility became established between them like a new season of the year.

Colette

#16. But this doesn't mean that there is incompatibility between regulation and rapid innovation: it is more of a disconnect, since both sides are there to serve customers' needs and it is those customers, both corporate and consumer, who will make the choice. These

Susanne Chishti

#17. So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat
Over everything debatable and combatable
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life
Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.

Ogden Nash

#18. I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism ... Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

Aldous Huxley

#19. No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

William S. Burroughs

#20. In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak.

Milan Kundera

#21. The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.

Rodney Stark

#23. One cannot escape the impression that the intellectual's most fundamental incompatibility is with the masses. He has managed to thrive in social orders dominated by kings, nobles, priests, and merchants, but not in societies suffused with the tastes and values of the masses.

Eric Hoffer

#24. It is easier to get on with vices than with virtues. The vices, accommodating by nature, help each other, are full of mutual indulgence, whereas the jealous virtues combat and annihilate each other, showing in everything their incompatibility and their intolerence

Emil Cioran

#25. [Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Richard Corliss

#26. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

#27. There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#28. Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

Evan Esar

#29. I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. As everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

Margaret Deland

#31. INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.

Ambrose Bierce

#32. I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

Dave Barry

#33. Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#34. What happened to the fifteen?" she asks.
"Various things, but it boils down to incompatibility."
"And you think that I might be compatible with you?"
"Yes."
I hope so.

E.L. James

#35. Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Cyril Connolly

#36. In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

Dorothy Richardson

#37. An omnipotent god can create a being whose acts are known only to itself.

An omniscient god cannot do this.

It would appear, then, that no god can be both omnipotent and omniscient.

Richard R. LA Croix

#38. When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.

Daniel Keyes

#39. The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

Benjamin Whichcote