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I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic… — Harold Urey
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic… — Chauncey Guy Suits
We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people… — Lester R. Brown
Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and… — Jackie Huggins
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended… — Jonathan Ive
Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basic nature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon… — Neale Donald Walsch
The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads… — Elizabeth S. Anderson
The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is… — Swami Yogananda
"I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that… — William Montgomery Watt
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and exercise… — John Michael Sherlock
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of… — Margaret Chase Smith
A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.. — Goswami Kriyananda
We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever… — Sogyal Rinpoche
To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing. — Olivia Newton-John
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,… — Wendell Berry
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the… — Jacques Chirac
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than… — Karl Kraus
There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got… — Oseola McCarty
Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody.… — Ian Kershaw

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