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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to… — Gottfried Leibniz
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due… — John Herschel
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial… — John Playfair
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not… — Adolf Hitler
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law...… — Joseph LeConte
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is… — Louis Pasteur
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There… — Charles Francis Richter
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything… — Erwin Schrodinger
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. — Immanuel Kant
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is… — Michel de Montaigne
Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes. — Honore de Balzac
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand… — Frederick Douglass
I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you,… — Rajneesh
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the… — Thomas Jefferson
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in… — Benjamin Franklin
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion. — Seneca the Younger
Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching is that as… — Rajneesh

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