Already Known Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match…
— James Gleick
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Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not…
— Heinrich Hertz
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The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the universe is unchangeable.
— William John Macquorn Rankine
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And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out…
— Marcus Sedgwick
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Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision:…
— Charles Harper Webb
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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
— William Blake
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Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable…
— Jean Piaget
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If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material…
— John Yudkin
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What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of…
— Andy Couturier
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by…
— Henri Bergson
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Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind…
— Susan Sontag
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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the…
— Max von Laue
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Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known,…
— Archibald Garrod
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The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world…
— Arthur J. Deikman
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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ...…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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The FUTURE of this world has long been DECLARED; the final outcome between GOOD and evil is already KNOWN. There is absolutely no question as…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to…
— Mark Epstein
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I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save…
— Ki Longfellow
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Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that…
— Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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