Constants Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply…
— Richard Dawkins
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Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we…
— Richard Dawkins
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It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure…
— William Cecil Dampier
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I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me…
— Martin Henderson
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We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States, we will be able to…
— Khaled Mashal
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There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of…
— Francis Collins
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... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are…
— Stephen Hawking
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The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.
— John Cheever
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If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.
— Sam Kean
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Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal…
— Philippe Starck
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The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and…
— Johannes Kepler
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I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas…
— Stanislaw Lem
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
— Stephen Covey
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They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's…
— C.E. Murphy
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Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to…
— Conor Oberst
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I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.
— Waris Ahluwalia
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Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.
— Nick Flynn
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I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
— S. Robson Walton
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