quotes about Aberration
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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. MichelsonSource : "On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether". Article by by Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley. American Journal of Science, 1887, 34 (203), p. 341, en.wikisource.org. 1887.
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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 -
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
-- Emile M. Cioran -
Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
-- H. L. Mencken -
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It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
-- Henry James -
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 -
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
-- Lester R. BrownSource : Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.229, W. W. Norton & Company
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Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
-- Mary Roach -
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
-- Pat Conroy -
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
-- Remy de Gourmont -
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
-- Rene Dubos -
Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.
-- Sheri L. Dew -
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This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this aberration in my life. The rest of my conduct, I think you will agree, is not reflective of my driving record, and I apologized for it.
-- Zulima Farber -
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 SmallSource : 1914 'A Vision of Social Efficiency', in the American Journal of Sociology, Jan.
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I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
-- Kevin SessumsSource : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
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Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?
-- Larisa AlexandrovnaSource : "Exclusive: Former UN weapons inspector Ritter says NeoCons 'godless parasites' feeding on the Republican Party". www.rawstory.com. March 25, 2005.
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