Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 867 authors

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me — Confucius
God alone is the author of all the motions in the world. — Rene Descartes
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements... But a God… — Blaise Pascal
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of… — John Dalton
The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor… — William Holmes McGuffey
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,… — James Dwight Dana
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of… — James Dwight Dana
It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and… — C.S. Lewis
I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55. — Mark Twain
If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not… — Robert Boyle
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard… — Dudley R. Herschbach
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come… — Edward Forbes
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and,… — Othniel Charles Marsh
Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know;… — Evariste Galois
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural… — Augustus William Hare
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The… — Isaac Todhunter
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion. — Robert Boyle

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