Branches Quotes
771 quotes by 630 authors
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If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its…
— Starhawk
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Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
— Margaret Atwood
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Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow…
— Haruki Murakami
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It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all…
— Richard E. Blackwelder
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The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from…
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy: neutrino…
— John N. Bahcall
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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the…
— Auguste Comte
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Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving…
— Charles V. Chapin
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Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as…
— John Constable
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There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
— Nikolai Lobachevsky
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Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well…
— Alexander Crum Brown
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While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal…
— William Mitchinson Hicks
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When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that…
— Frank J. Tipler
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The…
— Julian Coolidge
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I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
— Thomas Nagel
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If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the…
— Carl Gustav Hempel
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