Book Quotes

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My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments:… — Isaac Newton
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from… — Isaac Newton
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything… — Erwin Schrodinger
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread… — Louis Agassiz
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression… — George Polya
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,… — Alfred Adler
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand. — Cindy Sherman
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as… — Samuel Johnson
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I… — Francis Collins
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. — Angela Carter
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. — Roald Dahl
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught… — Abraham Lincoln
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,… — Abraham Lincoln
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln

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