Consists Quotes

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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty… — Abraham Cowley
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. — John Selden
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable… — Ayn Rand
Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do… — Walter E. Williams
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make… — Saadi
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material… — Claude Bernard
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses:… — Karl Popper
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;… — William Stanley Jevons
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack… — John Desmond Bernal
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws… — Charles Darwin
The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material. — Karl Pearson
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until… — Michael Faraday
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;… — John Owen
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. — Claude Bernard
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
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
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the… — Bertrand Russell
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. — Isidore of Seville
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew… — Benjamin Rush
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a… — Herbert Croly
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still… — Alan Watts
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have… — Saint John Chrysostom

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