Existence Quotes

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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 now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God. — Salvador Dali
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
Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known. — Roger Penrose
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
Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen… — Henri Poincare
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
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the… — Konrad Lorenz
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds… — James Clerk Maxwell
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every… — Henry David Thoreau
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the… — Marcello Malpighi
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.… — Alan Watts
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
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to… — Wernher von Braun
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
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus

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