Beyond Quotes
5476 quotes by 3232 authors
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[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law…
— Samuel West
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Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of…
— John Joseph Griffin
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
— Unknown Author
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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
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One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.
— Gino Severini
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The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit,…
— Unknown Author
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in…
— Unknown Author
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Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge,…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated…
— Francis Maitland Balfour
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[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the…
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish…
— A.J. Ayer
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Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,…
— Unknown Author
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The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief…
— Antony Hewish
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The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with…
— Emile Borel
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure…
— Sun Tzu
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A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage…
— Konosuke Matsushita
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of…
— Michel de Montaigne
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There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.
— Jonathan Ive
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