Exact Quotes

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.