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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as… — Martin Luther
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. — Edward de Bono
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our… — Karl Popper
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by… — Jacques Monod
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of… — Louis Pasteur
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which… — Galileo Galilei
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful… — Al Gore
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body.… — Gottfried Leibniz
Leadership must be established from the top down. — Sam Nunn
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom. — John Quincy Adams
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and… — Hippocrates
[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. — George Washington
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by… — Algernon Sidney
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying. — Richard Henry Lee
The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required… — M. Scott Peck
God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all… — Seneca the Younger
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led… — Edward Teller
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
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
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
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or… — Thomas Carlyle

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