Quotes by Aberration It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration. Albert A. Michelson aberration enough earth The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism. Albion Woodbury Small civilized-nations aberration problem Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind. Alexis de Tocqueville aberration religious men Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. Anatole France chastity aberration literature Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. Auguste Comte aberration analysis spirit You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. Dan Simmons aberration violence essence The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry. Daniel Kahneman aberration skills culture We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration. Desmond Tutu aberration good-and-evil evil The love of freedom is actually an aberration. Dennis Prager aberration By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? Emile M. Cioran aberration normal suicide Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same time for ideals whose realization would lead straight to the abhorred tyranny. Friedrich August von Hayek aberration hate thinking Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval! Gregory Maguire aberration cat looks The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful. Hal Clement aberration insanity thinking Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration. H. L. Mencken aberration progress wisdom It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools. Henry James aberration fool born Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts. Ilona Andrews aberration odd nuts We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing. Jean-Claude Juncker aberration issues today The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love. John Astin aberration becoming enemy It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it came to rest. Idle men and idle plant were an aberration, a wholly temporary failing. Keynes showed that the modern economy could as well find its equilibrium with continuing, serious unemployment. Its perfectly normal tendency was to what economists have since come to call an underemployment equilibrium. John Kenneth Galbraith perfectly-normal aberration men I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had. Kevin Sessums aberration things-in-life done 12»