Exist Quotes

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The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in… — Martin Rees
All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If,… — Stephen Hawking
And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it… — Anaxagoras
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they… — Protagoras
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad… — Mark Twain
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and… — Vilfredo Pareto
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though… — Martin Gardner
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are… — Martin Rees
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of… — Herbert Spencer
Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like… — Max Lerner
Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not… — William James
The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be… — Penelope Lively
...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient… — Wilhelm Wundt
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to… — John Taylor Gatto
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What… — Margaret J. Wheatley
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and… — Ramana Maharshi
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite… — Jean Genet
Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences… — Wayne Dyer
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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