Classical Quotes

639 quotes by 529 authors

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil… — Thomas Jefferson
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...… — Thomas Jefferson
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more… — Werner Heisenberg
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has… — Wolfgang Pauli
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. — Alan Price
Classical ballet will never die. — Ninette de Valois
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. — Steve Hackett
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. — Ludwig von Mises
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in… — Murray Rothbard
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next… — Sydney Brenner
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed… — Werner Heisenberg
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
PoincarÃ© was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something… — Eric Temple Bell
Life in the open is one of my finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become… — Fred Bear
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It… — George H. Smith
I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips… — Lana Del Rey
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy… — Gilbert N. Lewis

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