B C Quotes
88 quotes by 76 authors
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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.…
— Carl Sagan
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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it…
— Corinne Heline
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I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.
— Angelina Jolie
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Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as far back as…
— Morris K. Jessup
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Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C.
— W.C. Fields
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With so much drama in the L-B-C, It's kinda hard bein Snoop D-O-double-G
— Snoop Dogg
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The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations -…
— Carl Sagan
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Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.
— Hugh Nibley
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The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.
— Bill Toomey
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Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the…
— Ruth Reichl
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At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts.…
— Svante Arrhenius
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his…
— A. E. Housman
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We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A,…
— William Glasser
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This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776…
— Bill Bowerman
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Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of…
— Leonard Shlain
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Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic…
— Leon M. Lederman
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I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and…
— Allen Steck
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Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name…
— Alan Watts
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The B.C. spirit bear symbolizes the essence of the spirit of British Columbia. It is a powerful presence and a thing of wonder that lives…
— Gordon Campbell
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