The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“You are not an accident. Even at the moment of your conception, out of many possibilities, only certain cells combined, survived, grew… — Judith Lothian Copy Share Image
A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right… — Dev Anand Copy Share Image
Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form.… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
...through schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government - one that will embrace all of the collective… — Harold Rugg Copy Share Image
“Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can’t… — Karen Fowler Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
