Doe Quotes
16709 Doe quotes by 7013 unique authors
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which…
— Albert Einstein
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The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago…
— Hermann Kolbe
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Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails…
— Alfred Nobel
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Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form…
— John Dewey
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Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men…
— Max Wertheimer
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Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with…
— H. L. Mencken
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I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if…
— Paul Dirac
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The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.…
— Albert Einstein
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Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;…
— Karl Popper
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All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language,…
— Henri Poincare
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If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2…
— Ronald Fisher
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As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly…
— Charles Spurgeon
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not…
— Francis of Assisi
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It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin…
— Bertrand Russell
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It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the…
— John Owen
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Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a…
— Timothy Keller
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Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others…
— J C Ryle
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...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the…
— Jerry Bridges
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I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded…
— Frederick The Great
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to…
— Francis Bacon
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Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and…
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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