In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I'm actually an impatient person. I'm very suited for television because with the process, it's six weeks from the time you come… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault Copy Share Image
Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make… — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the… — Steve Benson Copy Share Image
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been… — David Robert Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed.… — Henry Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“Prose Poems from my book SPAN OBSERVATION So, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the… — Sam Rayburn Copy Share Image
Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
We live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work,… — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings… — Rudolph Schoenheimer Copy Share Image
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively… — J. H. Plumb Copy Share Image
I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe…It is foolish… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a… — Johann Gottfried Galle Copy Share Image
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![“Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the…” quote by Johann Gottfried Galle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/johann-gottfried-galle-248826_academy_sir-the-planet-neptune-whose-position-yo_2205721.jpg)
