Elements Quotes

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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action. — Talcott Parsons
The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity... — George Herbert
The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the… — Claude Bernard
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that… — Rudolf Arnheim
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest… — W. W. Rouse Ball
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life… — Wilhelm Wundt
The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give… — Marie Curie
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general… — Frederick Soddy
"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be… — Max Wertheimer
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is… — Samuel Johnson
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… — Thomas Carlyle
One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it. — Marc Jacobs
Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other,… — Swami Vivekananda
Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead. — Swami Vivekananda
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that… — Khalil Gibran
Compassion is an essential element of love. — Radhanath Swami
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can… — Francine Pascal

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