Consequence Quotes

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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Richard Kirwan
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? — Hugo Ball
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison… — Yves Klein
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the… — Roger Brooke Taney
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment." — William Thomas Councilman
You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as… — David Attenborough
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by… — William Buckland
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell… — Shirley M. Tilghman
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be… — Henry De la Beche
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has… — Arthur Compton
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity. — Grenville Kleiser
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical… — Thomas Nagel
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the… — Stanislav Grof
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences… — Blaise Pascal
The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is… — Swami Yogananda

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