If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental… — John Locke Copy Share Image
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“As I went through all these experiences, I began to compile a list that wasn't written down in any book, only inscribed… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
“Plants or animals rarely behave in an unnatural manner that’s contrary to their true makeup. Human beings are also natural beings, but… — H.E. Davey Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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