Beginning Quotes

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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and… — Isaac Newton
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have… — Thomas Hobbes
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from… — Hans Reichenbach
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect… — Galileo Galilei
The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. — Jonathan Swift
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will… — Steven Weinberg
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross. — Matt Chandler
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. — Benjamin Disraeli
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ...… — Fritjof Capra
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed… — Edward Teller
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general… — Frederick Soddy
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. — Gottfried Leibniz
As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved.… — Sydney Brenner
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them. — Aristotle
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow… — John Charles Polanyi
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. — Cesare Pavese

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