'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
David R. Brower

Science always uses metaphor.
James Lovelock

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
Charles M. Allen

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Edgar Watson Howe

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
John Buchanan Robinson

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.
Ivan Pavlov

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
Henri Poincare

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
Pat Buckley

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.
Diane Wood

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
Friedrich Engels

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
Robert Walpole

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
Salvatore Quasimodo

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
Anne Campbell

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.
Cliff Stearns