There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it:… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence,… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences… — William James Copy Share Image
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe… — William Daniel Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down.… — John Hannah Copy Share Image
Finding a really good weblog is like finding the peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks. They are in there, but you… — Mark R. Woodward Copy Share Image
Let us consider the polarity of love and hate… Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Our observer is not affected by emotional ups and downs, our personal life dramas, or by the events of the external world.… — Marcey Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard… — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic… — Anselm J. McLaurin Copy Share Image
I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something… — Jonathan D. Spence Copy Share Image
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
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