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Ancient Quotes by William Whewell
- Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of…
- Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.
- Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read the Principia we…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source,… — Frederick Lenz
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a… — Wallace Stevens
- Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson