Although every man believes that his decisions and…

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…

— Immanuel Kant

I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in…

— Henri Barbusse

When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations…

— George Bernard Shaw

Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme…

— Pieter Zeeman

[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are…

— David Attenborough

Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting…

— Gaston Bachelard

The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I…

— Leon Foucault

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ...…

— Alfred Binet

There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his…

— Natalie Dormer

The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

What we are saying is that on top of the warming trend there is a long-periodic oscillation that will probably lead to a lower…

— Mojib Latif

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and…

— Johannes Stark

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90…

— Hans Berger