Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart.… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a… — James Trefil Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart.… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx)… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I love the most about working in the digital cinema is that you're only limited in your… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature;… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Though shalt have a code of your own laws that govern you according to how you yourself perceive the world and though… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But… — Theodore von Karman Copy Share Image
The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
