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What you cannot see in the world is far more powerful than anything you can see. — T. Harv Eker
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical… — John B. S. Haldane
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such… — Michael Faraday
Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth… — Pope John Paul II
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that… — Hermann Joseph Muller
Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature. — Stephen Jay Gould
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede… — Barack Obama
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and… — Bertrand Russell
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. — Adam Sedgwick
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial… — John Playfair
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed… — Samuel Johnson
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must… — Francis Bacon
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does… — John Steinbeck
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws… — Arthur Eddington
We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that… — Robert Morrison MacIver
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is… — Charles Lyell
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. — Arthur C. Clarke
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply. — William Osler

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